Ethical issues in modern medicine : contemporary readings in bioethics /

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Other Authors: Steinbock, Bonnie, London, Alex John, Arras, John D., 1945-2015
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : McGraw-Hill, [2013]
Edition:8th ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Moral Reasoning in the Medical Context
  • Foundations of the Health Professional-Patient Relationship:
  • Autonomy, Paternalism, and Medical Models
  • Informed Consent and Truth-Telling
  • Conflicting Professional Roles and Responsibilities
  • Allocation, Social Justice, and Health Policy:
  • Justice, Health, and Health Care
  • Allocating Scare Resources
  • Organ Transplantation: Gifts Versus Markets
  • Poverty, Health, and Justice Beyond National Borders
  • Forgoing Life-Sustaining Treatment and Euthanasia:
  • Decisional Capacity and the Right to Refuse Treatment
  • Advance Directives
  • Choosing for Once-Competent Patients
  • Choosing for Never-Competent Patients
  • Physician-Assisted Death
  • Life, Death, and Moral Status:
  • The Significance of Death
  • The Morality of Abortion
  • Embryonic Stem-Cell Research
  • Reproduction:
  • Procreative Responsibility
  • Assisted Reproduction
  • Reproductive Cloning
  • Experimentation on Human Subjects:
  • Born in Scandal: The Origins of U.S. Research Ethics
  • The Ethics of Randomized Clinical Trials
  • Deprivation and Less Than the Best Standard of Care
  • Emerging Technologies:
  • Behavioral Genetics
  • Enhancing Humans and Remaking Nature
  • Neuroethics