If I were a rich man could I buy a pancreas? : and other essays on the ethics of health care /
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| Author / Creator: | Caplan, Arthur L. |
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| Imprint: | Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c1992. |
| Description: | xvii, 348 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Medical ethics series |
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| Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1385734 |
Table of Contents:
- Pt. I. The nature of applied ethics. 1. Can applied ethics be effective in health care and should it strive to be? 2. Moral experts and moral expertise: Does either exist?
- Pt. II. Ethical issues in animal and human experimentation. 3. Beastly conduct: ethical issues in animal experimentation. 4. Moral community and the responsibility of scientists. 5. On privacy and confidentiality in social science research. 6. Is there a duty to serve as a subject in biomedical research?
- Pt. III. Advances in reproduction and genetics. 7. New technologies in reproduction--new ethical problems. 8. Mapping morality: ethics and the human genome project
- Pt. IV. Transplants and other unnatural acts. 9. Requests, gifts, and obligations: the ethics of organ procurement. 10. If I were a rich man could I buy a pancreas? Problems in the policies and criteria used to allocate organs for transplantation in the United States. 11. Ethical issues raised by research involving xenografts
- Pt. V. Aging, chronic illness, and rehabilitation. 12. Is aging a disease? 13. Let wisdom find a way: the concept of competency in the care of the elderly. 14. Is medical care the right prescription for chronic illness? 15. Informed consent and provider/patient relationships in rehabilitation medicine. 16. Can autonomy be saved?
- Pt. VI. Money, medicine, and morality. 17. The high cost of technological development: a caveat for policymakers. 18. Hard data is the only answer to hard choices in health care. 19. Ethics, cost-containment, and the allocation of scarce resources.
