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Bioethics: Introduction to the History, Methods, and Practice


Author(s): Jecker, Nancy S.
ISBN10:  0763702285
ISBN13:  9780763702281
Format:  Paperback
Pub. Date:  2/1/1997
Publisher(s): Jones & Bartlett

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SummaryTable of Contents
University of Washington, Seattle. Introductory textbook of bioethics. For undergraduates, medical students, and graduate students. Softcover. DNLM: Ethics, Medical.
Preface xi
PART I THE HISTORY OF BIOETHICS 3(110)
Introduction to the History of Bioethics 3(9)
Albert R. Jonsen
SECTION 1 Moral Questions and the "New Biology"
12(17)
The New Biology: What Price Relieving Man's Estate?
12(3)
Leon R. Kass
The Heart Transplant: Ethical Dimensions
15(4)
Kenneth Vaux
Who Shall Live When Not All Can Live?
19(10)
James F. Childress
SECTION 2 Experimentation and Human Subjects
29(31)
Ethics and Clinical Research
29(13)
Henry K. Beecher
Philosophical Reflections on Experimenting with Human Subjects
42(9)
Hans Jonas
Realities of Patient Consent to Medical Research
51(9)
John Fletcher
SECTION 3 To Save or Let Die
60(27)
Moral and Ethical Dilemmas in the Special-Care Nursery
60(10)
Raymond S. Duff
A. G. M. Campbell
To Save or Let Die: The Dilemma of Modern Medicine
70(7)
Richard A. McCormick
Active and Passive Euthanasia
77(6)
James Rachels
Prolonged Dying: Not Medically Indicated
83(4)
Paul Ramsey
SECTION 4 Bioethics as a Discipline
87(26)
Bioethics as a Discipline
87(6)
Daniel Callahan
Medical Ethics: Some Uses, Abuses, and Limitations
93(8)
K. Danner Clouser
How Medicine Saved the Life of Ethics
101(12)
Stephen Toulmin
PART II THE METHODS OF BIOETHICS 113(146)
Introduction to the Methods of Bioethics 113(13)
Nancy S. Jecker
SECTION 1 Deductive Approaches: Ethical Theories and Principles
126(32)
Contemporary Deductive Approaches
126(21)
Equality and Its Implications
126(5)
Peter Singer
Kantian Ethics
131(10)
Fred Feldman
From Principles of Biomedical Ethics (Selection)
141(6)
Tom L. Beauchamp
James F. Childress
Critiques of Deductive Approaches
147(11)
A Critique of Principlism
147(5)
K. Danner Clouser
Bernard Gert
Feminism and Moral Theory
152(6)
Virginia Held
SECTION 2 Inductive Methods: Casuistry and Narrative Ethics
158(32)
Contemporary Inductive Approaches
158(17)
Casuistry and Clinical Ethics
158(4)
Albert R. Jonsen
From Doctors' Stories (Selection)
162(13)
Kathryn M. Hunter
Critiques of Inductive Approaches
175(15)
Getting Down to Cases: The Revival of Casuistry in Bioethics
175(9)
John Arras
Feminist and Medical Ethics: Two Different Approaches to Contextual Ethics
184(6)
Susan Sherwin
SECTION 3 Descriptive Methods: Quantitative and Qualitative Empirical Studies
190(47)
Quantitative Methods
190(28)
Attitudes toward Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia among Physicians in Washington State
190(12)
Jonathan S. Cohen
Stephan D. Fihn
Edward J. Boyko
Albert R. Jonsen
Robert W. Wood
Survival after Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation in the Hospital
202(16)
Susanna E. Bedell
Thomas L. Delbanco
E. Francis Cook
Franklin H. Epstein
Qualitative Methods
218(19)
Limitation of Medical Care: An Ethnographic Analysis
218(14)
William Ventres
Mark Nichter
Richard Reed
Richard Frankel
Should Medical Encounters Be Studied Using Ethnographic Techniques?
232(5)
Cynthia J. Stolman
SECTION 4 Cultural Assumptions in Bioethical Methods
237(22)
Medical Morality Is Not Bioethics: Medical Ethics in China and the United States
237(15)
Renee C. Fox
Judith P. Swazey
Yes, There Are African-American Perspectives on Bioethics
252(7)
Annette Dula
PART III THE PRACTICE OF BIOETHICS 259(144)
Introduction to the Practice of Bioethics 259(14)
Robert A. Pearlman
SECTION 1 Clinical Bioethics
273(36)
Ethics Committees
273(10)
Hospital Ethics Committees: Is There a Role?
273(6)
Robert M. Veatch
The Inner Workings of an Ethics Committee: Latest Battle over Jehovah's Witnesses
279(4)
Ruth Macklin
Ethics Consultation
283(17)
Ethics Consultation: Skills, Roles, and Training
283(10)
John La Puma
David L. Schiedermayer
Facilitating Medical Ethics Case Review: What Ethics Committees Can Learn from Mediation and Facilitation Techniques
293(7)
Mary Beth West
Joan Mclver Gibson
Quality Assurance
300(9)
Behind Closed Doors: Promises and Pitfalls of Ethics Committees
300(9)
Bernard Lo
SECTION 2 Clinical Policy Development
309(74)
The Federal Level
309(36)
Part 1340--Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention and Treatment (Selection) Office of Human Development Services, Health and Human Services
309(15)
The Patient Self-Determination Act and the Future of Advance Directives
324(7)
Peter J. Greco
Kevin A. Schulman
Risa LaVizzo-Mourey
John Hansen-Flaschen
Deciding to Forego Life-Sustaining Treatment (Selection) President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research
331(14)
The State Level
345(12)
Natural Death Act The State of California
345(2)
When Others Must Choose (Selection) The New York State Task Force on Life and the Law
347(10)
Professional Associations
357(8)
Ethical Issues Involved in the Growing AIDS Crisis American Medical Association
357(4)
Position of the American Academy of Neurology on Certain Aspects of the Care and Management of the Persistent Vegetative State Patient Executive Board, American Academy of Neurology
361(4)
Health Care Institutions
365(18)
Initiating and Withdrawing Life Support: Principles and Practice in Adult Medicine
365(12)
John Ruark
Thomas Raffin
the Stanford University Medical Center Committee on Ethics
Ethics Committees and Decisions to Limit Care: The Experience at the Massachusetts General Hospital
377(6)
Troyen A. Brennan
SECTION 3 Cultural Assumptions in the Practice of Bioethics
383(20)
Western Bioethics on the Navajo Reservation: Benefit or Harm?
383(9)
Joseph A. Carrese
Lorna A. Rhodes
Gender, Race, and Class in the Delivery of Health Care
392(11)
Susan Sherwin
Index 403

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