If I were a rich man could I buy a pancreas? : and other essays on the ethics of health care /

This collection of 19 previously published essays by well-respected ethicist Caplan ranges from basic discussion of moral experts and moral expertise to experimentation on humans and animals. The essays are grouped into six parts: the nature of applied ethics; ethical issues in animal and human experimentation; advances in reproduction and genetics; transplants and other unnatural acts; aging, chronic illness, and rehabilitation; and money, medicine, and morality. Caplan makes two important points in his introduction that are well represented in each essay: 1) that the ultimate test of claims in bioethics is the pragmatic application of such claims to real people, real situations; and 2) that moral theory is derived from many sorts of information empirical, historical, sociological, economic, institutional, and ethical. Major ethical concerns of autonomy, allocation of scarce resources, justice, doing good and avoiding harm, are addressed. Each essay includes common viewpoints on the ethical issues, Caplan's position in summary, and a list of references sufficient to explore each issue in more detail. Undergraduate through professional. J. E. Thompson; University of Pennsylvania

Discusses the ethics of genetic engineering, reproductive technology, transplantation and aging. (Mar.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved