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Seventh edition. |
| Description |
xxii, 914 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Preface -- The contributors -- Introduction : Moral reasoning in the medical context -- Bioethics : nature and scope -- Sources of bioethical problems and concerns -- Challenges to ethical theory -- Moral theories and perspectives -- Religious ethics -- "Rights-based" approaches -- Communitarian ethics -- Feminist ethics -- Virtue ethics -- Nonmoral considerations -- Modes of moral reasoning -- pt. 1. Foundations of the health professional-patient relationship -- Section 1 : Autonomy, paternalism, and medical models -- The Hippocratic oath -- The refutation of medical paternalism / Alan Goldman -- Beneficence today, or autonomy (maybe) tomorrow? -- Commentary / Bernice S. Elger -- Commentary -- Jean-Claude Chevrolet -- Why doctors should intervene / Terrence F. Ackerman -- Four models of the physician-patient relationship / Ezekiel J. Emanuel and Linda L. Emanuel -- Section 2 : Informed consent and truth-telling -- Antihypertensives and the risk of temporary impotence : a case study in informed consent / John D. Arras -- Informed consent -- must it remain a fairy tale? / Jay Katz -- Errors in medicine : nurturing truthfulness / François Baylis -- Bioethics in a different tongue : the case of truth-telling / Leslie J. Blackhall, Gelya Frank, Sheila Murphy, and Vicki Michel -- Offering truth / Benjamin Freedman. |
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Section 3 : Conflicting professional roles and responsibilities -- Vitaly Tarasoff et al. v. The Regents of the University of California et al., Defendants and Respondents -- Please don't tell! -- Commentary / Leonard Fleck -- Commentary / Marcia Angell -- Disclosing misattributed paternity / Lainie Friedman Ross -- SARS plague : duty of care or medical heroism? / Dessmon YH Tai -- The lessons of SARS / Ezekiel J. Emanuel -- What should the dean do? -- Commentary / Gregory L. Eastwood -- Commentary / Daniel Fu-Chang Tsai and Ding-Shinn Chen -- Commentary / James Dwyer -- The limits of conscientious objection -- may pharmacists refuse to fill prescriptions for emergency contraception? / Julie Cantor and Ken Baum -- When law and ethics collide -- why physicians participate in executions / Atul Gawande -- "To comfort always" : physician participation in executions / Ken Baum -- Dialysis for a prisoner of war -- Commentary / Daniel Zupan, Gary Solis, and Richard Schoonhoven -- Commentary / George Annas -- Recommended supplementary reading. |
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pt. 2. Allocation, social justice, and health policy -- Section 1 : Justice, health, and health care -- An ethical framework for access to health care / President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research -- Equal opportunity and health care / Norman Daniels -- Freedom and moral diversity : the moral failures of health care in the welfare state / H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr. -- Social determinants of health : the solid facts -- Why the United States is not number one in health / Ichiro Kawachi -- Justice, health, and healthcare / Norman Daniels -- Opportunity is not the key / Gopal Sreenivasan -- Section 2 : Allocating scare resources -- Bone marrow transplants for advanced cancer : the story of Christine deMeurers / Alex John London -- Justice and the high cost of health / Ronald Dworkin -- Imposing personal responsibility for health / Robert Steinbrook -- Responsibility in health care : a liberal egalitarian approach / Alexander W. Cappelen and Ole Frithjof Norheim -- Last-chance therapies and managed care : pluralism, fair procedures, and legitimacy / Norman Daniels and James Sabin -- Illegal immigrants, health care, and social responsibility / James Dwyer -- Rationing vaccine during and avian influenza pandemic : why it won't work / John D. Arras -- Who should get influenza vaccine when not all can? / Ezekiel J. Emanuel and Alan Wertheimer. |
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Section 3 : Organ transplantation : gifts versus markets -- The case for allowing kidney sales / Janet Radcliffe-Richards, Abdallah S. Daar, Ronald D. Guttmann, Raymond Hoffenberg, Ian Kennedy, Margaret Lock, Robert A. Sells, Nicholas L. Tilney, International Forum for Transplant Ethics -- An ethical market in human organs / Charles A. Erin and John Harris -- Body values : the case against compensating for transplant organs / Donald Joralemon and Phil Cox -- Section 4 : Poverty, health, and justice beyond national borders -- Responsibilities for poverty-related illness / Thomas W. Pogge -- Do we owe the global poor assistance or rectification? / Mathias Risse -- Recommended supplementary reading. |
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pt. 3. Defining death, forgoing life-sustaining treatment, and euthanasia -- Section 1 : The definition of death -- Defining death / President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research -- The whole-brain concept of death remains optimum policy / James L. Bernat -- An alternative to brain death / Jeff McMahan -- Section 2 : Decisional capacity and the right to refuse treatment -- State of Tennessee Department of Human Services v. Mary C. Northern -- Transcript of proceedings : testimony of Mary C. Northern -- Deciding for others : competency / Allen Buchanan and Dan W. Brock -- A chronicle : Dax's case as it happened / Keith Burton -- Commentary / Robert B. White -- Commentary / H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr. -- Section 3 : Advance directives -- The health care proxy and the living will / George J. Annas -- Enough : the failure of the living will / Angela Fagerling and Carl E. Schneider -- Testing the limits of prospective autonomy : five scenarios -- Norman L. Cantor. |
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Section 4 : Choosing for once-competent patients -- Erring on the side of Theresa Schiavo : reflections of the special guardian ad litem / Jay Wolfson -- "Human non-person" : Terri Schiavo, bioethics, and our future / Wesley J. Smith -- In the matter of Claire C. Conroy -- The severely demented, minimally functional patient : an ethical analysis / John D. Arras -- Nutrition and hydration : moral and pastoral reflections / U.S. Bishops' Pro-Life Committee -- Quality of life and non-treatment decisions for incompetent patients : a critique of the orthodox approach / Rebecca S. Dresser and John A. Robertson -- The limits of legal objectivity / Nancy K. Rhoden -- Section 5 : Choosing for never-competent patients -- Termination of life-support for a never-competent patient : the case of Sheila Pouliot -- Extreme prematurity and parental rights after Baby Doe / John A. Robertson -- Resuscitation of the preterm infant against parental wishes / John J. Paris, Michael D. Schreiber, and Alun C. Elias-Jones. |
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Section 6 : Physician-assisted death -- Death and dignity : a case of individualized decision making / Timothy E. Quill -- Physician-assisted suicide : a tragic view / John D. Arras -- Assisted suicide : the philosophers' brief introduction / Ronald Dworkin -- The philosophers' brief / Ronald Dworkin, Thomas Nagel, Robert Nozick, John Rawls, Thomas Scanlon, and Judith Jarvis Thomas -- Euthanasia : the way we do it, the way they do it / Margaret P. Battin -- Is there a duty to die? / John Hardwig -- "For now have I my death" : the "duty to die" versus the duty to help the ill stay alive / Felicia Nimue Ackerman -- Recommended supplementary reading. |
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pt. 4. Reproduction -- Section 1 : The morality of abortion -- The unspeakable crime of abortion / Pope John Paul II -- Why abortion is immoral / Don Marquis -- Why most abortions are not wrong / Bonnie Steinbock -- The morality of abortion / Margaret Olivia Little -- Section 2 : Obligations to the not-yet-born -- The rights of "unborn children" and the value of pregnant women / Howard Minkoff and Lynn M. Paltrow -- Reproductive freedom and prevention of genetically transmitted harmful conditions / Allen Buchanan, Dan W. Brock, Norman Daniels, and Daniel Wikler -- Cheap listening? Reflections on the concept of wrongful disability / Richard J. Hull -- Section 3 : Assisted reproduction -- The presumptive primacy of procreative liberty / John Robertson -- Instruction on respect for human life in its origin and on the dignity of procreation / Vatican, Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith -- What are families for? Getting to an ethics of reproductive technology / Thomas H. Murray -- Grade A : the market for a Yale woman's eggs / Jessica Cohen -- Payment for egg donation / Bonnie Steinbock -- Section 4 : Reproductive cloning -- The case against cloning-to-produce-children / The Presidents' Council on Bioethics -- Reproductive cloning : another look / Bonnie Steinbock -- Even if it worked, cloning wouldn't bring her back / Thomas H. Murray -- Recommended supplementary reading. |
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pt. 5. Genetics -- Section 1 : Prenatal genetic testing -- Prenatal diagnosis and selective abortion : a challenge to practice and policy / Adrienne Asch -- Disability, prenatal testing, and selective abortion / Bonnie Steinbock -- Ethical issues and practical problems in preimplantation genetic diagnosis / Jeffrey R. Botkin -- Using preimplantation genetic diagnosis to save a sibling : the story of Molly and Adam Nash / Bonnie Steinbock -- Section 2 : Therapeutic cloning and stem cell research -- Embryo ethics -- the moral logic of stem-cell research / Michael J. Sandel -- Acorns and embryos / Robert P. George and Patrick Lee -- Surplus embryos, nonreproductive cloning, and the intend/forsee distinction / William FitzPatrick -- Recommended supplementary reading. |
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pt. 6. Experimentation on human subjects -- Section 1: Born in scandal : the origins of U.S. research ethics -- The Nuremberg Code -- The Jewish chronic disease hospital case / John D. Arras -- The Willowbrook hepatitis studies / David J. Rothman and Sheila M. Rothman -- Racism and research : the case of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study / Allan M. Brandt -- The Belmont report : ethical principles and guidelines for the protection of human subjects of research / The National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research -- Section 2 : The ethics of randomized clinical trials -- Ethical difficulties with randomized clinical trials involving cancer patients : examples from the field of gynecologic oncology / Maurie Markman -- Of mice but not of men : problems of the randomized clinical trial / Samuel Hellman and Deborah S. Hellman -- A response to a purported ethical difficulty with randomized clinical trials involving cancer patients / Benjamin Freedman. |
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Section 3 : Ethical issues in international research -- Unethical trials of interventions to reduce perinatal transmission of the human immunodeficiency virus in developing countries / Peter Lurie and Sidney M. Wolfe -- AZT trials and tribulations / Robert A. Crouch and John D. Arras -- The ambiguity and the exigency : clarifying "standard of care" arguments in international research / Alex John London -- Research in developing countries : taking "benefit" seriously / Leonard H. Glantz, George J. Annas, Michael A. Grodin, and Wendy K. Mariner -- Fair benefits for research in developing countries / Participants in the 2001 conference on Ethical Aspects of Research in Developing Countries -- Section 4 : Research on children -- Children and "minimal risk" research : the Kennedy-Krieger lead paint study / Alex John London -- Research on children and the scope of responsible parenthood / Thomas H. Murray -- In loco parentis : minimal risk as an ethical threshold for research upon children / Benjamin Freedman, Abraham Fuks, and Charles Weijer -- Recommended supplementary reading. |
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pt. 7. Emerging technologies and perennial issues -- Section 1 : Emerging technologies -- The designer baby myth / Steven Pinker -- Applications of behavioural genetics : outpacing the science? / Mark A. Rothstein -- Neuroethics / Walter Glannon -- Section 2 : Enhancement -- Growth hormone therapy for the disability of short stature / David B. Allen -- The genome project, individual differences, and just health care / Norman Daniels -- Genetic interventions and the ethics of enhancement of human beings / Julian Savulescu -- The case against perfection : what's wrong with designer children, bionic athletes, and genetic engineering / Michael J. Sandel -- Anyone for tennis, at the age of 150? / Ronald Bailey -- Section 3 : Free will and responsibility -- Neurobiology, neuroimaging, and free will / Walter Glannon -- Recommended supplementary reading. |
| Summary |
This comprehensive anthology represents the key issues and problems in the field of medical ethics through the most up-to-date readings and case studies available. Each of the book's six parts is prefaced with introductions that raise important questions and contextualise the main points of the articles that follow. |
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Medical ethics.
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Bioethics.
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Medical personnel and patient.
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Medical personnel and patient. (OCoLC)fst01014481
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Bioethics. (OCoLC)fst00832038
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Medical ethics. (OCoLC)fst01014081
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| Added Author |
Steinbock, Bonnie.
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Arras, John D., 1945-2015.
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London, Alex John.
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| ISBN |
9780073407357 (alk. paper) |
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0073407356 (alk. paper) |
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