Ethical issues in modern medicine /
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| Edition: | 5th ed. |
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| Imprint: | Mountain View, Calif. : Mayfield Pub., c1999. |
| Description: | xxii, 760 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7245793 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Moral Reasoning in the Medical Context
- Part I. Foundations of the Health Professional--Patient Relationship
- Section 1. Autonomy, Paternalism, and Medical Models
- Section 2. Informed Consent
- Section 3. Professional Responsibilities: Conflicts of Interest in Managed Care
- Section 4. Managed Care and Informed Consent
- Part II. Defining Death, Forgoing Life-Sustaining Treatment, and Euthanasia
- Section 1. The Definition of Death and the Persistent Vegetative State
- Section 2. Decisional Capacity and the Right to Refuse Treatment
- Section 3. Advance Directives
- Section 4. Choosing for Others
- Section 5. Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide
- Part III. Contraception, Abortion, and Prenatal Diagnosis
- Section 1. Controversies over Contraception
- Section 2. The Morality of Abortion
- Section 3. Procreative Autonomy and Responsibility
- Part IV. Assisted Reproductive Technologies and Genetics
- Section 1. Advocates and Critics of Assisted Reproductive Technologies
- Section 2. Contract Pregnancy, Commodification, and the Family
- Section 3. Cloning
- Section 4. Genetic Screening and Testing
- Part V. Experimentation on Human Subjects
- Section 1. Social Welfare and Informed Consent
- Section 2. Ethics of Randomized Clinical Trials
- Section 3. Access to Experimental Therapies and Experimentation on "Vulnerable" Populations
- Part VI. Allocation, Social Justice, Health Policy
- Section 1. Justice and Health Care
- Section 2. A Miscellany of Hard Choices
- Section 3. Rationing Fairly: Principles and Procedures
- Appendix
- Credits
