Biomedical ethics reviews
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Biomedical ethics reviews
Humana Press
- 1983
- 1984
- 1985
- 1992
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1983 ISBN 9780896030411
Description
In the past decade the body of literature in the area of biomedical ethics has expanded at an astounding rate. Indeed, on every major topic, the literature in this area has mUltiplied, and continues to do so, so rapidly that one can easily fall behind important advances in our thinking about and understanding of the problems of contemporary bioethics. Awareness of this need to keep apace of developments in the area prompted a recent reviewer of our earlier collection Biomedical Ethics and the Law (Plenum, 2nd edition, 1979) to suggest that somebody ought to offer the service of providing a biennial review or update of the literature on the various central topics in bioethics. Thomas Lanigan, of The Humana Press, agreed with this last sug gestion and so asked us to edit a series of texts consisting of previously unpublished essays on selected topics, a series that would seek to re view and update recent literature on the central topics, while also striv ing to advance distinctive solutions to the problems on the topics under discussion. Accordingly, this first collection of previously unpublished essays focuses on the selected topics, and the authors commissioned were charged with addressing the basic problems assigned while also bringing the reader either directly or indirectly up to date on the rele vant literature.
Table of Contents
Euthanasia.- On Euthanasia.- The Sanctity of Life.- Surrogate Gestation.- Surrogate Gestation, Law, and Morality.- Surrogate Motherhood: The Ethical Implications.- The Distribution of Health Care.- Scarcity and Basic Medical Care.- Distributing Health Care: A Case Study.- The Involuntary Commitment and Treatment of Mentally Ill Persons.- Involuntary Commitment and Treatment of Persons Diagnosed as Mentally Ill.- Mental Illness and Crime.- Patenting New Life Forms.- Patenting New Forms of Life: Are There Any Ethical Issues?.- Ethical Issues Raised by the Patenting of New Forms of Life.
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1984 ISBN 9780896030695
Description
This is the second volume of Biomedical Ethics Reviews, a series of texts designed to review and update the literature on issues of central importance in bioethics today. Five topics are dis cussed in the present volume. Section I, Public Policy andRe search with Human Subjects, reviews the history of the moral issues involved in the history of research with human subjects, and confronts most of the major legal and moral problems involving research on human subjects. Questions addressed in this section range from those concerning informed and proxy consent to those dealing with the adequacy of monitoring hu man research via institutional review boards (IRBs). Section II deals with a second broad topic in bioethics, The Right to Health Care in a Democratic Society. Here the concern not merely that of determining whether there is a right to is health care, but also, if there is such a right, how it ought best be understood and implemented. To answer questions such as these, we learn that one must distinguish legal from moral rights, assess the merits of various theories of rights, clarify the relationship between rights and duties, and attempt to deter mine a just method for the distribution of health care. Advances in medical technology often pose new legal and moral problems for legislators and health care practitioners.
Table of Contents
Public Policy and Research with Human Subjects.- Public Policy and Human Research.- The Right to Health Care in a Democratic Society.- Utility, Natural Rights, and the Right to Health Care.- Rights to Health Care in a Democratic Society.- Genetic Screening.- Genetic Screening of Prospective Parents and of Workers: Some Scientific and Social Issues.- Current Issues in Genetic Screening.- Occupational Health.- Ethical Issues in Occupational Health.- Perspective on Ethical Issues in Occupational Health.- The Ethics of Fetal Research and Therapy.- The Ethics of Fetal Therapy.- Ethical Issues in Prenatal Therapies.
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1985 ISBN 9780896030930
Description
Biomedical Ethics Reviews: 1985 is the third volume in a series of texts designed to review and update the literature on issues of central impor tance in bioethics today. Four topics are discussed in the present volume: ( 1) Should citizens of the United States be permitted to buy, sell, and broker human organs? (2) Should sex preselection be legally proscribed? (3) What decision-making procedure should medical per sonnel employ in those cases where there is a high degree of uncer tainty? (4) What do we mean when we use the terms "health" and "disease"? Each topic constitutes a separate section in our text; intro ductory essays briefly summarize the contents of each section. Bioethics is, by its nature, interdisciplinary in character. Recognizing this fact, the authors represented in the present volume have made every effort to minimize the use of technical jargon. At the same time, we believe the purpose of providing a review of the recent literature, as well as of advancing bioethical discussion, is admirably served by the pieces collected herein. We look forward to the next volume in our series, and very much hope the reader will also.
Table of Contents
Buying and Selling of Human Organs.- Testimony: House Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight.- Coercion, Paternalism, and the Buying and Selling of Human Organs.- Global Objections to Kidney Sales: A Response to Professor Humber.- Sex Preselection.- Sex Preselection: Eugenics for Everyone?.- The Ethics of Sex Preselection.- Medical Decisionmaking Under Uncertainty.- Medical Decisionmaking Under Uncertainty.- Sharing Uncertainty: The Case of Biosynthetic Growth Hormone.- Concepts of Health and Disease.- In Defense of a Naturalistic Concept of Health.- Health and Aging: A Literary Perspective.
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