Contemporary issues in bioethics

Author(s)

• Beauchamp, Tom L.
• Walters, LeRoy

Bibliographic Information

Contemporary issues in bioethics

edited by Tom L. Beauchamp & LeRoy Walters

Wadsworth Pub. Co., c1994

4th ed.

Other Title

Bioethics

Note

Includes bibliographies

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Revised to reflect developments in the field, this fourth edition contains a comprehensive collection of articles on 9 key topics. The articles - 84% of which are new - present diverse points of view from an interdisciplinary group of contributors. The topics addressed in their essays touch upon the lives of their readers and are illustrated by current examples and real cases.

Table of Contents

• Introduction to ethics: ethical theory and bioethics. Professional relationships to patients and subjects: rights and responsibilities. Professional codes
• The virtues and obligations of professionals
• Moral quandries of professionals
• The management of biomedical information. Truth-telling and the management of bad news
• Informed consent
• Patient self-determination and advance directives
• Managing information in randomized clinical trials
• The management of confidential information. Reproductive decision-making: reproductive technologies and surrogate parenting arrangements. Parenting and the family
• The problem of infertility
• Artificial insemination donor (AID)
• In vitro fertilization
• Surrogate parenting arrangements
• Abortion and maternal-foetal relationships. Moral issues of abortion
• Legal issues of abortion
• Maternal-fetal relations. Decisions about the end of life: the right to die. Decisions by competent adults
• Decisions on behalf of the formerly competent
• Decisions about infants
• The medical futility debate
• Euthanasia and assisted suicide. The moral relevance of the killing-letting die distinction
• When is forgoing treatment also killing
• Physician-assisted suicide and voluntary active euthanasia
• The Netherlands experience. Public health, biomedical research, and biomedical technologies: the global AIDS epidemic. General issues
• The duty of health professionals to treat
• The duty to warn and the duty not to harm
• Testing and screening programs
• A global perspective
• Eugenics and human genetics. Eugenic programs in the United States and Germany
• The human genome project and genetic testing
• Human gene therapy
• Human genetic enhancement. Justice in access to health care: justice in the distribut-ion of health care resources. Just health care and the right to health care
• Universal health insurance and universal access
• Rationing health care and the Oregon Plan.

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Details

• NCID: BA2430148X
• ISBN:
  • 0534223141
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Belmont, Calif.
• Pages/Volumes: xii, 752 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : R724
  • DC19 : 174/.2
  • NDC8 : 490.15
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Medical ethics