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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 | |