Contemporary issues in bioethics /

Contemporary issues in bioethics /

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Edition:8th ed.
Imprint:Australia ; United States : Wadsworth Cengage Learning, c2014.
Description:xiv, 777 p. ; 23 cm.
Language:English
Subject:
Medical ethics.
Bioethics.
Bioethics.
Medical ethics.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8965888
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Other authors / contributors:Beauchamp, Tom L.
ISBN:1133315542 (pbk.)
9781133315544 (pbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • About the Authors
  • Chapter 1. Ethical Theory and Bioethics
  • Fundamental Problems
  • The Study of Morality
  • Moral Dilemmas and Disagreements
  • The Problem of Relativism
  • The Acceptability of Moral Diversity and Moral Disagreement
  • Moral Justification
  • Types of Ethical Theory
  • Utilitarian Theories
  • Kantian Theories
  • Contemporary Challenges to the Traditional Theories
  • Virtue Ethics
  • The Ethics of Care
  • Casuistry
  • Ethical Principles
  • Respect for Autonomy
  • Beneficence
  • Justice
  • Policy and Law
  • Ethics and Public Affairs
  • Morality and Law
  • Legal and Moral Rights
  • Law, Authority, and Autonomy
  • Chapter 2. The Health Care Provider-Patient Relationship?
  • Introduction
  • Confidentiality of Medical Information
  • Tarasoff v. Regents of the University of California, California Supreme Court
  • "A Defense of Unqualified Medical Confidentiality"
  • "The Legal and Ethical Fiction of 'Pure' Confidentiality"
  • Truth-Telling and Disclosure of Medical Error
  • "Telling the Truth to Patients with Cancer: What is the Truth?"
  • "A 62-Year-Old Woman With Skin Cancer Who Experienced Wrong-Site Surgery"
  • Informed Consent
  • Canterbury v. Spence, United States Court of Appeals
  • "Physicians and Patients: A History of Silence"
  • "The Concept of Informed Consent"
  • "Against the Tide: Arguments against Respecting a Minor's Refusal of Efficacious Life-Saving Treatment"
  • Refusal of Treatment and Advance Directives
  • Bouvia v. Superior Court, California Court of Appeals
  • Cruzan v. Director, Missouri Department of Health, United States Supreme Court
  • "Precommitment: A Misguided Strategy for Securing Death With Dignity"
  • Challenges In A Changing Health Care Environment
  • "Consent and Cultural Conflicts: Ethical Issues in Pediatric Anesthesiologists' Participation in Female Genital Cutting"
  • "Conscientious Refusal by Physicians and Pharmacists: Who is Obligated to do What, and Why?"
  • NHS Confederation, "Remote Control: The Patient-Practitioner Relationship in a Digital Age"
  • "Managed Care: Some Basic Ethical Issues"
  • Suggested Readings for Chapter 2
  • Chapter 3. Genetics and Genomics
  • Introduction
  • Genetics and Society
  • "Medicine, Eugenics, and the Supreme Court: From Coercive Sterilization to Reproductive Freedom"
  • "A Not-So-New Eugenics"
  • "What's Morally Wrong with Eugenics?"
  • World Health Organization, "Analysis: Impact of DNA Patents on Access to Genetic Tests and Genomic Science"
  • Patricia (Winnie) Roche, and Robert C. Green, "GINA, Genism, and Civil Rights"
  • Genetic Testing and Screening
  • "From Brute Luck to Option Luck? On Genetics, Justice, and Moral Responsibility in Reproduction"
  • "Ethics, Evidence, and Cost in Newborn Screening"
  • "The Advent of the 'Unpatients'"
  • "Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing: Perceptions, Problems, and Policy Responses"
  • Applying Genetic Technologies
  • "Swabbing Students: Should Universities Be Allowed to Facilitate Educational DNA Testing?"
  • "The Ethics of Human Gene Transfer"
  • "The $1000 Genome: Ethical and Legal Issues in Whole Genome Sequencing of Individuals"
  • "Opposition to Transgenic Technologies: Ideology, Interests and Collective Action Frames"
  • Suggested Readings for Chapter 3
  • Chapter 4. Reproduction
  • Introduction
  • Assisted Reproduction and Reprogenetics
  • "The Presumptive Primacy of Procreative Liberty"
  • "A Philosopher Looks at Assisted Reproduction"
  • "Free Markets, Free Choice?: A Market Approach to Reproductive Rights"
  • "Self-Regulation, Compensation, and the Ethical Recruitment of Oocyte Donors"
  • "Prenatal Diagnosis and Selective Abortion: A Challenge to Practice and Policy"
  • "Genetic Intervention and the Morality of Inclusion"
  • The Problem of Justifying Abortion
  • "Why Abortion is Immoral"
  • "Understanding the 'Conservative' View on Abortion"
  • "A Defense of Abortion"
  • "Abortion"
  • Landmark Court Cases On Abortion
  • United States Supreme Court
  • Planned Parenthood v. Casey, United States Supreme Court
  • United States Supreme Court
  • Suggested Readings for Chapter 4
  • Chapter 5. End Of Life
  • Introduction
  • Landmark Legislation and Legal Cases
  • Ballot Measure 16: The Oregon Death with Dignity Act, "Proposed by Initiative Petition to be Voted on at the General Election"
  • Attorney General of New York et al. v. Timothy E. Quill et al, United States Supreme Court
  • Washington et al. v. Harold Glucksberg et al., United States Supreme Court
  • Attorney General et al. v. Oregon et al, United States Supreme Court
  • Moral Arguments About the Law
  • "The Rise and Fall of the 'Right' to Assisted Suicide"
  • "Physician-Assisted Suicide: A Common Law Roadmap"
  • "Hastened Death and the Regulation of the Practice of Medicine"
  • Moral Issues about Physician-Assisted Death
  • "Voluntary Active Euthanasia"
  • "Vulnerable People: Practical Rejoinders to Claims in Favor of Assisted Suicide"
  • "Physician-Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia: Another Battle in the Culture Wars"
  • Alternatives To Physician-Assisted Death
  • "An Alternative to Physician-Assisted Suicide"
  • "Physician-Assisted Suicide as a Last-Resort Option at the End of Life"
  • Suggested Readings for Chapter 5
  • Chapter 6. Organ Transplantation
  • Introduction
  • Deceased Donation: Definition of Death and Consent
  • "The Definition of Death: Problems for Public Policy"
  • "Harvesting the Living?: Separating "Brain Death" and Organ Transplantation"
  • "Donation After Circulatory Death: Burying the Dead Donor Rule"
  • "Why We Must Leave Our Organs to Others"
  • Allocation of Organs from Deceased Donors
  • "Putting Patients First in Organ Allocation: An Ethical Analysis of the U.S. Debate"
  • "Better Off Living-The Ethics of the New UNOS Proposal for Allocating Kidneys for Transplantation"
  • Innovative Approaches for Obtaining Organs
  • "The Ethical Limits in Expanding Living Donor Transplantation"
  • "Ethnocentrism Is an Unacceptable Rationale for Health Care Policy: A Critique of Transplant Tourism Position Statements"
  • "Organ Solicitation on the Internet: Every Man for Himself?"
  • "Nephrarious Goings On: Kidney Sales and Moral Arguments"
  • Suggested Readings for Chapter 6
  • Chapter 7. Biomedical Research and Bioscience
  • Introduction
  • Use of Animals in Research
  • "The Ethics of Animal Research: What Are the Prospects for Agreement?"
  • "Animals"
  • Use of Humans in Research
  • The National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research, "The Belmont Report: Ethical Principles and Guidelines for the Protection of Human Subjects of Research"
  • "Swinging on the Pendulum: Shifting Views of Justice in Human Subjects Research"
  • "The Dangers of Difference"
  • "The Havasupai Indian Tribe Case-Lessons for Research Involving Stored Biologic Samples"
  • "The Exploitation of the Economically Disadvantaged in Pharmaceutical Research"
  • "Ethical and Policy Implications of Clinical Drug Trials Conducted in Developing Countries"
  • Controversial Science and Medicine
  • "The Obligation to Prevent the Next Dual-Use Controversy"
  • "Interests, Identities, and Synthetic Biology"
  • "Cognitive Enhancement: Methods, Ethics, Regulatory Challenges"
  • "The Ethics of Regenerative Medicine: Beyond Humanism and Posthumanism"
  • Suggested Readings for Chapter 7
  • Chapter 8. Justice and Health
  • Introduction
  • Social Justice, Health Policy, and Public Health
  • United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, "The Right of Everyone to the Enjoyment of the Highest Attainable Standard of Physical and Mental Health"
  • "Justice, Health, and Health Care"
  • "Responsibilities for Poverty-Related Ill Health"
  • "Social Justice, Inequality, and Systematic Disadvantage"
  • Just Health Care and the Right To Health Care
  • "Justice, the Basic Social Contract, and Health Care"
  • "The Right to a Decent Minimum of Health Care"
  • "Rights to Health Care, Social Justice, and Fairness in Health Care Allocations: Frustrations in the Face of Finitude"
  • Priority Setting In Health Care and Public Health
  • "The Necessity of Rationing Health Care"
  • "Priority to the Worse Off in Health-Care Resource Prioritization"
  • Suggested Readings for Chapter 8
  • Chapter 9. Public Health
  • Introduction
  • Approaches To Public Health Ethics
  • "Public Health Ethics: Mapping the Terrain"
  • "Human Rights and Public Health Ethics: Responding to the Global HTV/AIDS Pandemic"
  • Promotion and Prevention
  • "Persuasion and Coercion for Health: Ethical Issues in Government Efforts to Change Life-Styles"
  • "Guilt, Fear, Stigma and Knowledge Gaps: Ethical Issues, in Public Health Communication Interventions"
  • Management of Communicable Diseases
  • "Privacy, Democracy and the Politics of Disease Surveillance"
  • "Jacobson v. Massachusetts at 100 Years: Police Power and Civil Liberties in Tension"
  • "Restrictions on Liberty"
  • "Why We Should Eliminate Personal Belief Exemptions to Vaccine Mandates"
  • "Finding the Proper Balance between Freedom and Justice: Why We Should Not Eliminate Personal Belief Exemptions to Vaccine Mandates"
  • "The Ethics of Implementing Human Papillomavirus Vaccination in Developed Countries"
  • Pandemic Preparedness and Response
  • "Ethics and Severe Pandemic Influenza: Maintaining Essential Functions through a Fair and Considered Response"
  • "Ethics, Pandemics, and the Duty to Treat"
  • Suggested Readings for Chapter 9
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