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Healthcare Ethics in a Diverse Society

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ISBN-10: 155934976X

ISBN-13: 9781559349765

Edition: 2001

Authors: Irwin A. Horowitz, Kenneth S. Bordens, Judith Boss, Michael C. Brannigan

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List price: $94.69
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Higher Education
Publication date: 7/28/2000
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 672
Size: 7.50" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 2.794
Language: English

Moral Theory
Readings: From Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle
From On Liberty
From Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Ethics
Critical Thinking: The Basis For Ethical Reasoning
Reading: "A Defense of Abortion"
The Relationship Between Healthcare Professionals And Patients
Readings: "The Nurse/Physician Relationship and Ethical Decision Making"
"Lies to the Sick and Dying"
"On Telling Patients the Truth"
"Knowledge at the Bedside: A Feminist View of What's Happening with This Patient"
California Supreme Court, Decision in the Tarasoff Case
Abortion And Maternal-Fetal Conflicts
Readings: "An Almost Absolute Value in History"
"The Moral Significance of Birth"
"Abortion and the Sexual Agenda"
"Ethical and Social Issues in Prenatal Sex Selection: A Survey of Geneticists in 37 Nations"
"Justified Limits on Refusing Intervention"
Genetic Engineering, Reproductive Technologies, And Cloning
Readings: "Genealogy, Sacredness, and the Commodities Market"
"Genetic Links, Family Ties, and Social Bonds: Rights and Responsibilities in the Face of Genetic Knowledge"
"'Goodbye Dolly?' The Ethics of Human Cloning"
"The Wisdom of Repugnance: Why We Should Ban the Cloning of Humans"
"Parenting in an Era of Genetics"
Human And Animal Experimentation
Readings: "Philosophical Reflections on Experimenting with Human Subjects"
"How Did Medicine Go So Wrong?"
"Human Rights and Maternal-Fetal HIV Transmission Prevention Trials in Africa"
"Do Animals Have Rights?"
"Paradigm Shifts, Scientific Revolutions and the Moral Justification of Experimentation on Nonhuman Animals"
Organ Transplantation
Readings: "Research with Fetal Tissue"
"Multiple Listing for Organ Transplantation: Autonomy Unbounded"
"Should Alcoholics Compete Equally for Liver Transplantation?"
"Alcoholics and Liver Transplantation"
The Working Group on Genetic Engineering in Non-Human Life Forms, Society, Religion and Technology Project of the Church of Scotland, "The Ethics of Xenografting-Transplanting Animal Organs into Humans"
Euthanasia: End-Of-Life Decisions
Readings: "Active and Passive Euthanasia"
"Rachels on Active and Passive Euthanasia"
"Re-Assessing the Ordinary/Extraordinary Distinction in Withholding/Withdrawing Nutrition and Hydration"
"Physician-Assisted Suicide"
"A Feminist Critique of Physician-Assisted Suicide"
HIV And Aids: Prejudice And Policies
Readings: "The Great Hijack"
"Aids, Gays, and State Coercion"
"Harming, Wronging, and AIDS"
Working Group on HIV Testing of Pregnant Women and Newborns, "HIV Infection, Pregnant Women, and Newborns: A Policy Proposal for Information and Testing"
"Ethical Challenges Posed by Zidovudine Treatment to Reduce Vertical Transmission of HIV"
Challenges In Healthcare Policy And Reform
Readings: "For and Against Equal Access to Health Care"
"Why Saying No to Patients in the United States Is So Hard: Cost Containment, Justice, and Provider Autonomy"
"Lifestyles of the Risky and Infamous: From Managed Care to Managed Lives"
"A National Health Program: Northern Light at The End of the Tunnel"
"A National Health Program: Abyss at the End of the Tunnel-the Position of Physicians Who Care"