Contemporary issues in bioethics /
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| Edition: | 7th ed. |
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| Imprint: | Belmont, CA : Thomson/Wadsworth, c2008. |
| Description: | x, 806 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6687059 |
Table of Contents:
- Part I. Introduction To Ethics
- 1. Ethical Theory and Bioethics
- Fundamental Problems
- The Study of Morality
- Moral Dilemmas and Disagreements
- The Problem of Relativism
- Moral Justification
- Types of Ethical Theory
- Utilitarian Theories
- Kantian Theories
- Contemporary Challenges to Traditional Theories
- Virtue Ethics
- The Ethics of Care
- Casuistry
- Ethical Principles
- Respect for Autonomy
- Beneficence
- Justice
- Law and Policy
- Ethics and Public Affairs
- Morality and Law
- Legal and Moral Rights
- Law, Authority, And Autonomy
- Part II. Justice and Autonomy in Health Care
- 2. Justice in Access to Health Care
- Introdcution
- Just Health Care and the Right to Health Care
- "Is There a Right to Health Care and, if so, What Does it Encompass?"
- "Justice, the Basic Social Contract, and Health Care."
- "The Right to a Decent Minimum of Health Care."
- "Rights to Health Care."
- Managed Care and Access to Care
- "Securing Health or Just Health Care?: The Effect of the Health Care System."
- "Managed Care: How Economic Incentive Reforms Went Wrong."
- "Managed Care: Rationing without Justice, But Not Unjustly." Rationing
- "''Rationing'' Health Care: Not All Definitions are Created Equal."
- "Rationing Fairly: Programmatic Considerations."
- "Just Caring: Oregon, Health Care Rationing, and Informed Democratic Deliberation."
- 3. Autonomy Rights and Medical Information
- Introduction
- The Confidentiality of Medical Information
- "Confidentiality in Medicine - A Decrepit Concept."
- California Supreme Court, Tarasoff v. Regents of the University of California
- "AIDS, Confidentiality, and the Right to Know." Truth Telling and Disclosing Bad News
- "Telling the Truth to Patients: A Clinical Ethics Exploration."
- "Disclosure of a Diagnosis to Children and Adolescents When Parents Object
- Informed Consent
- United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit, Cantebury v. Spence
- "Physicians and Patients: A History of Silence."
- "The Concept of Informed Consent."
- "Informed Consent: Some Challenges to the Universal Validity of the Western Model."
- Refusal of Treatment
- California Court of Appeals, Second District, Bouvia v. Superior Court
- United States Supreme Court, Cruzan v. Director, Missouri Department of Health
- Advance Directives
- "Advance Care Planning as a Process: Structuring the Discussions in Practice."
- "Advance Directives: The Next Generation."
- Part III. Life and Death
- 4. End-of-Life Decisionmaking
- Introduction
- The Right to Die
- "A Right to Choose Death?"
- "Is There a Right to Die?"
- The Legal Background in the United States
- The Oregon Death With Dignity Act
- United States Supreme Court, Vacco v. Quil and Washington v. Glucksberg
- The Supreme Court of California, Wendland v. Wendland
- The Moral Foundations of Public Policy on Physician-Assisted Death
- "Voluntary Euthanasia under Control?: Further Empirical Evidence from the Netherlands."
- "Slippery Slopes in Flat Countries: A Response." Palliation and Other Alternatives to Physician-Assisted Death
- "An Alternative to Physician-Assisted Suicide."
- "Palliative Options of Last Resort."
- 5. Abortion and Maternal-Fetal Relations
- Introduction
- The Problem Justifying Abortion
- "Why Abortion is Immoral."
- "A Defense of Abortion."
- "The Morality of Abortion."
- "On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion."
- Legal Issues
