Ethical Issues in Modern Medicine Contemporary Readings in Bioethics

Name: Ethical Issues in Modern Medicine Contemporary Readings in Bioethics
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ISBN: 9780073407357

ISBN-10: 0073407356

ISBN-13: 9780073407357

Edition: 7th 2009 (Revised)

Authors: Bonnie Steinbock, John D. Arras, Alex John London

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This comprehensive anthology represents the key issues and problems in the field of biomedical ethics through the most up-to-date readings and case studies available. Each of the book's seven parts is prefaced with helpful introductions that raise important questions and skillfully contextualize the positions and main points of the articles that follow. This seventh edition updates and expands parts throughout the text, including the discussions of conflicting roles and responsibilities for medical professionals and justice in health care. A new Part Seven entitled "Emerging Technologies and Perennial Issues," which explores the issues of behavioral genetics and human enhancements.

Book details

List price: $141.33
Edition: 7th
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies, The
Publication date: 1/25/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 800
Size: 7.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 2.904
Language: English




Foundations of the Health Professional-Patient Relationship



Autonomy, Paternalism, and Medical Models The Hippocratic Oath



Informed Consent & Truth Telling



Conflicting Professional Roles and Responsibilities



Allocation, Social Justice, and Health Policy



Justice, Health, and Health Care



Allocating Scarce Resources



Organ Transplantation: Gifts vs. Markets



Poverty, Health, and Justice Beyond National Borders



Defining Death, Forgoing Life-Sustaining Treatment, and Euthanasia



The Definition of Death



Decisional Capacity and the Right to Refuse Treatment



Advance Directives



Choosing for the Once-Competent



Choosing for the Never-Competent



Physician-Assisted Death



Reproduction



The Morality of Abortion



Obligations to the Not-Yet-Born



Assisted Reproduction



Reproductive Cloning



Genetics



Prenatal Genetic Testing



Therapeutic Cloning and Stem Cell Research



Experimentation on Human Subjects



Born in Scandal: The Origins of US Research Ethics



The Ethics of Randomized Clinical Trials



Ethical Issues in International Research



Research on Children



Emerging Technologies and Perennial Issues



Emerging Technologies



Enhancement



Free Will and Responsibility


Appendix: Resources in Bioethics