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| Preface | |
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| Preface II | |
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| Principles of Health Care Ethics | |
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| Ethics, Professional Ethics, and Health Care Ethics | |
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| Emotions and the Ethical Life | |
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| Human Nature and Ethics | |
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| Theories of Ethics | |
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| Key Issues | |
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| Applied Ethics | |
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| The Professions and Professional Ethics | |
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| The Health Care Professions | |
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| Summary | |
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| Notes | |
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| Principles of Autonomy and informed Consent | |
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| General Formulation | |
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| Patient Autonomy: Informed Consent | |
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| Paternalism: Weak and Strong | |
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| The Consent of Children, Adolescents, and Incompetent Patients | |
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| Exceptions in Emergencies | |
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| The Right to Refuse Treatment | |
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| Problem Areas | |
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| Summary | |
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| Cases for Analysis | |
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| Notes | |
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| Principles of Beneficence and Nonmaleficence | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Specifications of Beneficence | |
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| Specifications of Nonmaleficence | |
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| The Principle of Proportionality | |
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| The Patient's Obligation | |
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| The Health Care Provider's Obligation | |
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| The Surrogates Obligation | |
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| Summary | |
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| Cases for Analysis | |
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| Notes | |
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| The Ethics of Distribution | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Goals of Health Care | |
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| Theories and Their Limits | |
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| Microallocation: Individual and Institutional Rationing | |
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| Summary | |
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| Cases for Analysis | |
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| Notes | |
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| Principles of Confidentiality and Truthfulness | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Truthfulness | |
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| Confidentiality | |
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| Summary | |
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| Cases for Analysis | |
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| Notes | |
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| Problems of Health Care Ethics | |
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| Professional standards and institutional Ethics | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Judging Quality | |
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| Institutional Ethics | |
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| Ethics Committees | |
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| The Obligation to Police | |
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| Competition and Institutional Ethics | |
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| Summary | |
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| Cases for Analysis | |
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| Notes | |
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| Ethical Problems of Death and Dying | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Ethics of the Patient | |
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| Health Care Providers and the Ethics of Suicide Prevention | |
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| Health Care Providers and the Ethics of the Death of a Patient | |
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| Physician Initiatives | |
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| Cooperation with Active Suicide and Euthanasia | |
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| Surrogates and the Termination of Treatment | |
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| Summary | |
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| Cases for Analysis | |
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| Notes | |
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| Abortion and Maternal-Fetal Conflict | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Does the Fetus Have Rights: U.S. Law? | |
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| The Definition and Types of Abortion | |
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| The Moral Status of the Fetus | |
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| Moral Status: Summary | |
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| The Autonomy of the Pregnant Woman | |
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| The Ethics of Abortion as a Social Phenomenon | |
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| Abortion and the Health Care Provider | |
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| Maternal-Fetal Conflict | |
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| Summary | |
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| Cases for Analysis | |
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| Notes | |
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| New Methods of Reproduction | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Artificial Insemination and the General Problems of Assisted Reproduction | |
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| In Vitro Fertilization | |
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| Surrogate Mothers | |
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| The Charge of Artificiality | |
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| The Ethics of the Health Care Provider | |
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| A Question of Distributive Justice | |
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| Summary | |
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| Cases for Analysis | |
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| Notes | |
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| The Ethics of Transplants | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Ethics of Organ Donation from the Patients Perspective | |
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| Basic Questions Regarding the Idea of Transplants | |
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| The Ethics of Cadaver Organ Donation | |
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| Increasing the Supply of Organs: Ethical Problems | |
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| The Ethics of the Health Care Team | |
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| The Health Care Provider s Ethics of Distribution | |
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| The Society's Ethics of Distribution | |
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| Summary | |
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| Cases for Analysis | |
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| The Ethics of Testing and Screening | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Testing | |
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| Ethical Problems of Mass Screening | |
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| Summary | |
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| Cases for Analysis | |
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| Note | |
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| The Ethics of Biomedical Research | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Ethics of the Researcher | |
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| The Ethics of the User of Research Results | |
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| Fetal Research | |
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| Genetic Therapy | |
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| Reproductive and Therapeutic Cloning | |
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| Summary | |
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| Cases for Analysis | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |