Ethical Issues In Modern Medicine - Brossura

Steinbock, Bonnie; Arras, John; London, Alex John

Brossura

ISBN 10: 007110156X ISBN 13: 9780071101561

Casa editrice: McGraw-Hill Education, 2008

Riassunto

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 helpful introductions that raise important questions and skillfully contextualize the positions and main points of the articles that follow.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Bonnie Steinbock is professor of philosophy at the University at Albany, State University of New York, and a faculty member of the Bioethics Program of Union Graduate College and the Mount Sinai School of Medicine.

Contenuti:

(* indicates new to 7th edition)
PART ONE: Foundations of the Health Professional-Patient Relationship
Section 1: Autonomy, Paternalism, and Medical Models The Hippocratic Oath
Section 2: Informed Consent & Truth Telling
Section 3: Conflicting Professional Roles and Responsibilities
PART TWO: Allocation, Social Justice, and Health Policy
Section 1: Justice, Health, and Health Care
Section 2: Allocating Scarce Resources
Section 3: Organ Transplantation: Gifts vs. Markets
Section 4: Poverty, Health, and Justice Beyond National Borders
PART THREE: Defining Death, Forgoing Life-Sustaining Treatment, and Euthanasia
Section 1: The Definition of Death
Section 2: Decisional Capacity and the Right to Refuse
Treatment Section 3: Advance Directives
Section 4: Choosing for the Once-Competent
*Section 5: Choosing for the Never-Competent
Section 6: Physician-Assisted Death
PART FOUR: Reproduction
Section 1: The Morality of Abortion
Section 2: Obligations to the Not-Yet-Born
Section 3: Assisted Reproduction
Section 4: Reproductive Cloning
PART FIVE: Genetics
Section 1: Prenatal Genetic Testing
Section 2: Therapeutic Cloning and Stem Cell Research
PART SIX: Experimentation on Human Subjects
Section 1: Born in Scandal: The Origins of US Research Ethics
Section 2: The Ethics of Randomized Clinical Trials
Section 3: Ethical Issues in International Research
Section 4: Research on Children
PART SEVEN: Emerging Technologies and Perennial Issues
Section 1: Emerging Technologies
Section 2: Enhancement
Section 3: Free Will and Responsibility
Appendix: Resources in Bioethics

Su questa edizione

• Editore: McGraw-Hill Education
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 007110156X
• ISBN 13: 9780071101561
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 914