Classic cases in medical ethics : accounts of cases that have shaped medical ethics, with philosophical, legal, and historical backgrounds

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Classic cases in medical ethics : accounts of cases that have shaped medical ethics, with philosophical, legal, and historical backgrounds

Gregory E. Pence

McGraw-Hill, c2004

4th ed

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes

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内容説明

This rich collection, popular among teachers and students alike, provides an in-depth look at major cases that have shaped the field of medical ethics. The book presents each famous (or infamous) case, using extensive historical and contextual background, and then proceeds to illuminate it by careful discussion of pertinent philosophical theories and legal and ethical issues.

目次

Classic Cases in Medical Ethics, Fourth EditionChapter One: Moral Reasoning and Ethical Theories in Medical EthicsSection I: Classic Cases about Death and DyingChapter Two: Comas: Karen Quinlan and Nancy CruzanChapter Three: Requests to Die: Elizabeth Bouvia and Larry McAfeeChapter Four: Physician-Assisted Dying: Oregon's LegalizationSection II: Classic Cases about the Beginnings of Human LifeChapter Five: Abortion: The Kenneth Edelin CaseChapter Six: Assisted Reproduction: Louise Brown and BeyondChapter Seven: Battles over Stem Cells and EmbryosChapter Eight: Reproductive CloningChapter Nine: Letting Impaired Newborns Die: Baby Jane DoeSection III: Classic Cases about ResearchChapter Ten: Animal Subjects: The Philadelphia Primate StudyChapter Eleven: Human Subjects: The Tuskegee Syphilis StudyChapter Twelve: Adult Heart Replacement: The First Heart Transplant and Artificial HeartChapter Thirteen: Allocation of Artificial and Transplantable Organs: The God CommitteeChapter Fourteen: Infants and Medical Research: Baby Fae and Baby TheresaSection IV: Classic Cases about Individual Rights versus the Public GoodChapter Fifteen: Involuntary Psychiatric Commitment: Joyce BrownChapter Sixteen: Ethical Issues and Genetic Diseases: Nancy WexlerChapter Seventeen: AIDS: Preventing the Global Spread of HIV-Infection Chapter Eighteen: Ethical Issues in Financing Medicine: Expanding Medicare?

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