| |
| |
| Preface | |
| |
| |
| Introduction | |
| |
| |
| Medical Decision Making | |
| |
| |
| Is Informed Consent Still Central to Medical Ethics? | |
| |
| |
| Yes: Robert M. Arnold and Charles W. Lidz, from "Informed Consent: Clinical Aspects of Consent in Healthcare," in Stephen G. Post, ed., Encyclopedia of Bioethics, vol. 3, 3rd ed. (Macmillan, 2003) | |
| |
| |
| No: Onora O'Neill, from Autonomy and Trust in Bioethics (Cambridge University Press, 2002) | |
| |
| |
| Should Truth-Telling Depend on the Patient's Culture? | |
| |
| |
| Yes: Leslie J. Blackhall, Gelya Frank, Sheila Murphy, and Vicki Michel, from "Bioethics in a Different Tongue: The Case of Truth-Telling," Journal of Urban Health (March 2001) | |
| |
| |
| No: Mark Kuczewski and Patrick J. McCruden, from "Informed Consent: Does It Take a Village? The Problem of Culture and Truth Telling," Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare (2001) | |
| |
| |
| Does Direct-to-Consumer Drug Advertising Enhance Patient Choice? | |
| |
| |
| Yes: Alan F. Holmer, from "Direct-to-Consumer Prescription Drug Advertising Builds Bridges Between Patients and Physicians," Journal of the American Medical Association (January 27, 1999) | |
| |
| |
| No: Matthew F. Hollon, from "Direct-to-Consumer Marketing of Prescription Drugs," Journal of the American Medical Association (January 27, 1999) | |
| |
| |
| Death and Dying | |
| |
| |
| Do Some Advance Directives Limit Patients' Rights? | |
| |
| |
| Yes: Christopher James Ryan, from " Betting Your Life: An Argument Against Certain Advance Directives," Journal of Medical Ethics (vol. 22, 1996) | |
| |
| |
| No: Steven Luttrell and Ann Sommerville, from " Limiting Risks by Curtailing Rights: A Response to Dr. Ryan," Journal of Medical Ethics (vol. 22, 1996) | |
| |
| |
| Do Standard Medical Ethics Apply in Disaster Conditions? | |
| |
| |
| Yes: Robert W. Donnell, from "A Bright Line," Medscape (October 3, 2006) | |
| |
| |
| No: Mary Faith Marshall, from "Oh, the Water...It Stoned Me to My Soul," University of Minnesota Bioethics Examiner (Summer 2006) | |
| |
| |
| Should Physicians Be Allowed to Assist in Patient Suicide? | |
| |
| |
| Yes: Marcia Angell, from "The Supreme Court and Physician-Assisted Suicide: The Ultimate Right," The New England Journal of Medicine (January 2, 1997) | |
| |
| |
| No: Kathleen M. Foley, from "Competent Care for the Dying Instead of Physician-Assisted Suicide," The New England Journal of Medicine (January 2, 1997) | |
| |
| |
| Should Doctors Be Able to Refuse Demands for "Futile" Treatment? | |
| |
| |
| Yes: Steven H. Miles, from ""Informed Demand for 'Non-Beneficial' Medical Treatment," The New England Journal of Medicine (August 15, 1991) | |
| |
| |
| No: Felicia Ackerman, from "The Significance of a Wish," Hastings Center Report (July/August 1991) | |
| |
| |
| Choices in Reproduction | |
| |
| |
| Is Abortion Immoral? | |
| |
| |
| Yes: Patrick Lee and Robert P. George, from "The Wrong of Abortion," in Andrew Cohen and Christopher Heath Wellman, eds., Contemporary Debates in Applied Ethics (Blackwell, 2005) | |
| |
| |
| No: Margaret Olivia Little, from "The Morality of Abortion," in Bonnie Steinbock, John D. Arras, and Alex John London, eds., Ethical Issues in Modern Medicine (McGraw-Hill, 2003) | |
| |
| |
| Should a Pregnant Woman Be Punished for Exposing Her Fetus to Risk? | |
| |
| |
| Yes: Jean Toal, from Majority Opinion, Cornelia Whitner, Respondent, v. State of South Carolina, Petitioner (July 15, 1997) | |
| |
| |
| No: Lynn M. Paltrow, from "Punishment and Prejudice: Judging Drug-Using Pregnant Women," in Julia E. Hanigsberg and Sara Ruddick, eds., Mother Troubles: Rethinking Contemporary Maternal Dilemmas (Beacon Press, 1999) | |
| |
| |
| Children and Bioethics | |
| |
| |
| Should Adolescents Be Allowed to Make Their Own Life-and-Death Decisions? | |
| |
| |
| Yes: Robert Weir and Charles Peters, from "Affirming the Decisions Adolescents Make About Life and Death," Hastings Center Report (November/December 1997) | |
| |
| |
| No: Lainie Friedman Ross, from " Health care Decisionmaking by Children: Is It in Their Best Interest?" Hastings Center Report (November/December 1997) | |
| |
| |
| Do Parents Harm Their Children When They Refuse Medical Treatment on Religions Grounds? | |
| |
| |
| Yes: Massachusetts Citizens for Children, from "Death by Religious Exemption," http://www.masskids.org/dbre/dbre_html (January 1992) | |
| |
| |
| No: Mark Sheldon, from "Ethical Issues in the Forced Transfusion of Jehovah's Witness Children," The Journal of Emergency Medicine (vol. 14, no. 2, 1996) | |
| |
| |
| Genetics | |
| |
| |
| Is the Ban on Federal Funding of Human Stem Cell Research Justifiable? | |
| |
| |
| Yes: President's Council on Bioethics, from Monitoring Stem Cell Research: A Report of the President's Council on Bioethics (January 2004) | |
| |
| |
| No: Jerome Groopman, from "Forward, Medicine! Science Morality, and Embryonic Stem Cells," New Republic (November 1, 2004) | |
| |
| |
| Is Genetic Enhancement an Unacceptable Use of Technology? | |
| |
| |
| Yes: Michael J. Sandel, from "The Case Against Perfection," The Atlantic Monthly (April 2004) | |
| |
| |
| No: Howard Trachtman, from "A Man Is a Man Is a Man," The American Journal of Bioethics (May/June 2005) | |
| |
| |
| Human and Animal Experimentation | |
| |
| |
| Should Animal Experimentation Be Permitted? | |
| |
| |
| Yes: Jerod M. Loeb et al, from "Excerpt from, Human vs. Animal Rights: In Defense of Animal Research," Journal of the American Medical Association (November 17, 1989) | |
| |
| |
| No: Tom Regan, from "Ill-Gotten Gains in Donald Van DeVeer and Tom Regan, eds.," Health Care Ethics: An Introduction (Temple University Press, 1987) | |
| |
| |
| Should Prisoners Be Allowed to Participate in Research? | |
| |
| |
| Yes: Institute of Medicine Committee on Ethical Considerations for Revisions to DHHS Regulations for Protection of Prisoners Involved in Research, from Ethical Considerations for Research Involving Prisoners (June 2006) | |
| |
| |
| No: Silja J.A. Talvi, from "End Medical Experimentation on Prisoners Now," inthesetimes.com (September 26, 2006) | |
| |
| |
| Bioethics and Public Policy | |
| |
| |
| Should Federally Funded Health Care Be Tied to Following Doctors' Orders? | |
| |
| |
| Yes: State of West Virginia, from Medicaid Redesign Proposal (November 7, 2005) | |
| |
| |
| No: Gene Bishop and Amy C. Brodkey, from "Personal Responsibility and Physician Responsibility: West Virginia's Medicaid Plan," New England Journal of Medicine (August 24, 2006) | |
| |
| |
| Does Military Necessity Override Medical Ethics? | |
| |
| |
| Yes: Michael L. Gross, from "Bioethics and Armed Conflict: Mapping the Moral Dimensions of Medicine and War," Hastings Center Report (November/December 2004) | |
| |
| |
| No: M. Gregg Bloche and Jonathan H. Marks, from "When Doctors Go to War," New England Journal of Medicine (January 6, 2005) | |
| |
| |
| Should Performance-Enhancing Drugs Be Banned from Sports? | |
| |
| |
| Yes: Thomas H. Murray, from "Drugs, Sports, and Ethics," Project Syndicate (July 2004) | |
| |
| |
| No: Julian Savalescu, Bennett Foddy, and Megan Clayton, from "Why We Should Allow Performance Enhancing Drugs in Sports," British Journal of Sports Medicine (December 2004) | |
| |
| |
| Should There Be a Free Market in Body Parts? | |
| |
| |
| Yes: J. Radcliffe-Richards et al., from "The Case for Allowing Kidney Sales," The Lancet (June 27, 1998) | |
| |
| |
| No: The Institute of Medicine Committee on Increasing Rates of Organ Donation, from Organ Donation: Opportunities for Action (2006) | |
| |
| |
| Should Pharmacists Be Allowed to Deny Prescriptions on Grounds of Conscience? | |
| |
| |
| Yes: Donald W. Herbe, from "The Right to Refuse: A Call for Adequate Protection of a Pharmacist's Right to Refuse Facilitation of Abortion and Emergency Contraception," Journal of Law and Health (2002/2003) | |
| |
| |
| No: Julie Cantor and Ken Baum, from "The Limits of Conscientious Objection-May Pharmacists Refuse to Fill Prescriptions for Emergency Contraception?" New England Journal of Medicine (November 4, 2004) | |
| |
| |
| Should Public Health Override Powers Over Individual Liberty in Combatting Bioterrorism? | |
| |
| |
| Yes: Lawrence O. Gostin, from "Law and Ethics in a Public Health Emergency," Hastings Center Report (March/April 2002) | |
| |
| |
| No: George J. Annas, from "Bioterrorism, Public Health, and Human Rights," Health Affairs (November-December 2002) | |
| |
| |
| Contributors | |
| |
| |
| Index | |