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Biomedical Ethics

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ISBN-10: 0195144317

ISBN-13: 9780195144314

Edition: 2004

Authors: Walter Glannon

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Today, advances in medicine and biotechnology occur at a rapid pace and have a profound impact on our lives. Mechanical devices can sustain an injured person's life indefinitely. Computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans of the body and brain can reveal disorders before symptoms appear. Genetic testing of embryos can predict whether people will have diseases earlier or later in life. It may even become possible to clone human beings. These and other developments raise difficult ethical questions. Biomedical Ethics is an engaging philosophical introduction to the most important ethical positions and arguments in six areas of biomedicine: the patient-doctor…    
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Book details

List price: $39.99
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/22/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 8.19" wide x 5.51" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

Preface
History and Theories
Introduction
The Need for Theories
Consequentialism and Deontology
Virtue Ethics and Feminist Ethics
Communitarianism and Liberalism
The Rejection of Theories: Casuistry and Cultural Relativism
Conclusion
Selected Readings
The Patient-Doctor Relationship
Introduction
Informed Consent
Therapeutic Privilege
Confidentiality
Cross-Cultural Relations
What Sort of Doctors Do We Need?
Conclusion
Selected Readings
Medical Research on Humans
Introduction
Design of Clinical Trials
Equipoise, Randomization, and Placebos
Problems with Consent Vulnerable Populations
Protections and Justice
Conclusion
Selected Readings
Reproductive Rights and Technologies
Introduction
Abortion
The Moral Status of Embryos
Surrogate Pregnancy
Sex Selection
Cloning
Conclusion
Selected Readings
Genetics
Introduction
Genetic Testing and Screening
Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis
Gene Therapy
Genetic Enhancement
Eugenics
Conclusion
Selected Readings
Medical Decisions at the End of Life
Introduction
Defining Death
Withdrawing and Withholding Treatment
Double Effect
Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide
Futility
Conclusion
Selected Readings
Allocating Scarce Medical Resources
Introduction
Setting Priorities
Quality-Adjusted Life-Years
Age-Based Rationing
Organ Transplantation
Two-Tiered Health Care
Conclusion
Selected Readings
Index
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