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| Chapters 3-10 include an "Applying Major Theories" section. | |
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| Each Chapter includes Key Terms, a Summary, Further Reading, and Notes. | |
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| Preface | |
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| Principles And Theories | |
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| Moral Reasoning In Bioethics | |
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| Ethics and Bioethics | |
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| Ethics and the Moral Life In Depth: Morality and the Law | |
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| Moral Principles in Bioethics Autonomy | |
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| Beneficence | |
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| Utility | |
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| Justice | |
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| Ethical Relativism In Depth: Anthropology and Moral Diversity | |
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| Ethics and Religion | |
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| Moral Arguments Argument Fundamentals | |
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| Review: Valid and Invalid Argument Forms | |
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| In Depth: Fallacies in Moral Reasoning | |
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| Evaluating Premises | |
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| Assessing Whole Arguments | |
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| Bioethics And Moral Theories | |
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| The Nature of Moral Theories | |
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| Influential Moral Theories Utilitarianism | |
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| In Depth: Utilitarianism and the Golden Rule | |
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| Kantian Ethics | |
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| Natural Law Theory | |
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| Rawls' Contract Theory | |
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| Virtue Ethics | |
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| In Depth: Can Virtue Be Taught? | |
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| The Ethics of Care | |
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| Feminist Ethics | |
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| Criteria for Judging Moral Theories Review: Evaluating Moral Theories: Criteria of Adequacy | |
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| Applying the Criteria Utilitarianism | |
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| Kant's Theory | |
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| READINGS:"Utilitarianism | |
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| "The Moral Law | |
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| "Virtue and the Moral Life | |
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| "The Ethics of Care," Virginia Held | |
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| Medical Professional And Patient | |
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| Paternalism And Patient Autonomy | |
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| Shades of Autonomy and Paternalism In Depth: The Hippocratic Oath | |
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| Refusing Treatment Legal Brief: Refusing Treatment for Children on Religious Grounds | |
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| Futile Treatment In Depth: CPR and DNR | |
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| Classic Case File: Elizabeth Bouvia In Depth: Moral Conflicts in Nursing | |
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| READINGS:"Paternalism | |
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| "The Refutation of Medical Paternalism | |
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| "Why Doctors Should Intervene | |
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| "Autonomy, Futility, and the Limits of Medicine | |
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| Bouvia v. Superior Court, California Court of Appeals | |
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| "Fundamental Elements of the | |
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| "In Defense of the Traditional Nurse | |
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| "Advocacy or Subservience for the Sake of Patients?" | |
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| Truth-Telling And Confidentiality | |
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| Paternalism and Deception In Depth: Do Patients Want the Truth? Do Physicians Tell It? | |
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| Confidential Truths Legal Brief: Confidentiality and a Duty to Warn | |
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| Classic Case File: Carlos R. | |
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| READINGS: "Telling the Truth to Patients: A Clinical Ethics Exploration | |
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| "On Telling Patients the Truth | |
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| "On a Supposed Right to Lie from Altruistic Motives | |
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| "Respect for Patients, Physicians, and the Truth | |
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| "Why Privacy Is Important | |
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| "Confidentiality in Medicine--A Decrepit Concept | |
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| "Ethical Relativism in a Multicultural Society | |
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| Tarasoff v. Regents of the University of California, Supreme Court of California | |
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| Informed Consent | |
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| Autonomy and Consent | |
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| Conditions of Informed Consent In Depth: Two Views of Informed Consent | |
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| Important Informed Consent Cases | |
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| Classic Case File: Jerry Canterbury | |
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| READINGS: "The Concept of Informed Consent | |
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| "Informed Consent--Must It Remain a Fairy Tale?" | |
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| "Transparency: Informed Consent in Primary Care | |
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| "Informed Consent: Some Challenges to the Universal Validity of the Western Model | |
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| Canterbury v. Spence, United States Court of Appeals | |
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| Human Research | |
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| The Science of Clinical Trials In Depth: The Tuskegee Tragedy | |
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| Beneficence, Science, and Placebos In Depth: Women in Clinical Trials | |
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| Science and Informed Consent In Depth: Why Enter a Clinical Trial? | |
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| Research on the Vulnerable | |
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| Classic Case File: The UCLA Schizophrenia Study | |
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| Readings: The Nuremberg Code | |
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| Declaration of Helsinki, World Medical Association | |
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| "The Belmont Report," National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research | |
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| "Final Report: Human Radiation Experiments," Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments | |
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| "Of Mice but Not Men: Problems of the Randomized Clinical Trial | |
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| "A Response to a Purported Ethical Difficulty with Randomized Clinical Trials | |
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| "How to Resolve an Ethical Dilemma Concerning Randomized Clinical Trials | |
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| "Racism and Research: The Case of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study | |
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| "The Ethics of Clinical Research in the Third World | |
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| "Ethical Issues in Clinical Trials in Developing Countries | |
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| Life And Death | |
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| Abortion | |
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| Starting Point: The Basics Fact File: U.S. Abortions | |
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| In Depth: Abortion and Public Opinion | |
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| The Legal Struggle | |
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| In Depth: Late-Term Abortion | |
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| Persons and Rights | |
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| Classic Case File | |
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| READINGS:"A Defense of Abortion | |
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| "Why Abortion Is Immoral | |
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| "An Almost Absolute Value in History | |
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| "On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion | |
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| "Abortion Decisions: Personal Morality | |
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| "Abortion and the Concept of a Person | |
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| "In Defense of Abortion and Infanticide | |
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| "Abortion Through a Feminist Ethic Lens | |
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| Planned Parenthood v. Casey, U.S. Supreme Court | |
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| Reproductive Technology Fact File: Assisted Reproduction | |
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| In Vitro Fertilization In Depth: IVF and Children's Future Children | |
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| Surrogacy Legal Brief | |
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| Cloning In Depth: Cloning Time Line | |
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| Classic Case File: Baby M | |
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| READINGS:"IVF: The Simple Case | |
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| "IVF and Women's Interests: An Analysis of Feminist Concerns | |
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| "'Give Me Children or I Shall Die!' New Reproductive Technologies and Harm to Children | |
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| "Instruction on Respect for Human Life in Its Origin and on the Dignity of | |
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| "The Presumptive Primacy of Procreative Liberty | |
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| "Surrogate Mothering: Exploitation or Empowerment? | |
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| "On 'Surrogacy | |
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| Is Women's Labor a Commodity? | |
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| "The Wisdom of Repugnance | |
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| "Cloning Human Beings: An Assessment of the Ethical Issues Pro and Con | |
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| Opinion in the Matter of Baby M, New Jersey Supreme Court | |
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| Genetic Choices | |
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| Genetic Testing In Depth: Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Tests | |
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| Genes and Genomes | |
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| Fact File: Genetic Tests | |
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| Gene Therapy In Depth: Recent Research in Gene Therapy | |
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| Stem Cells | |
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| Classic Case File: The Kingsburys | |
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| READINGS:"Implications of Prenatal Diagnosis for the Human Right to Life | |
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| "Genetics and Reproductive Risk: Can Having Children Be Immoral? | |
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| "The Morality of Screening for Disability | |
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| Genetic Dilemmas and the Child's Right to an Open Future | |
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| "Disowning Knowledge: Issues in Genetic Testing | |
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| "The Non-Identity Problem and Genetic Harms--the Case of Wrongful Handicaps | |
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| "Is Gene Therapy a Form of Eugenics? | |
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| "Genetic Enhancement | |
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| "Germ-Line Gene Therapy | |
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| "What Does 'Respect for Embryos' Mean in the Context of Stem Cell Research? | |
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| "Declaration on the Production and the Scientific and Therapeutic Use of Human | |
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| Euthanasia & Physician-Assisted Suicide | |
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| Deciding Life and Death Legal Brief: Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide: Major Developments | |
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| In Depth: Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide: What Doctors Think and Do | |
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| Autonomy, Mercy, and Harm In Depth: Oregon's Death With Dignity Act | |
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| In Depth: Physician-Assisted Suicide and Public Opinion | |
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| Classic Case File: Nancy Cruzan | |
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| READINGS: "Death and Dignity: A Case of Individualized Decision Making | |
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| "Voluntary Active Euthanasia | |
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| "When Self-Determination Runs Amok | |
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| "When Abstract Moralizing Runs Amok | |
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| "Physician-Assisted Suicide: A Tragic View | |
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| "Active and Passive Euthanasia | |
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| "The Distinction Between Refusing Medical Treatment and Suicide," New York State Task Force on Life and the Law | |
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| "The Philosophers' Brief | |
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| Washington v. Glucksberg, U.S. Supreme Court | |
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| Justice And Health Care | |
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| Dividing Up Health Care Resources | |
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| Health Care in Trouble In Depth: Unequal Health Care for Minorities | |
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| Fact File: U.S. Health Care | |
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| Theories of Justice In Depth: Public Opinion: Obtaining Adequate Heath Care | |
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| A Right to Health Care | |
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| The Ethics of Rationing | |
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| Classic Case File: Christine deMeurers | |
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| READINGS:"Is There a Right to Health Care and, if So, What Does It Encompass? | |
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| "The Right to a Decent Minimum of Health Care | |
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| "Rights to Health Care, Social Justice, and Fairness in Health Care Allocations: Frustrations in the Face of Finitude | |
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| Health Care Reform: Lessons from Canada | |
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| "Rationing Fairly: Programmatic Considerations | |
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| "The Allocation of Exotic Medical Lifesaving Therapy | |
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| "QALYfying the Value of Life | |
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| "The Prostitute, the Playboy, and the Poet: Rationing Schemes for Organ Transplantation | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Index | |