Medical Ethics : Accounts of the Cases and Issues That Define Medical Ethics

by Pence, Gregory E.

• ISBN13: 9780073535739
• ISBN10: 0073535737
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-07-11
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

Summary

This rich collection, popular among teachers and students alike, provides an in-depth look at major cases that have shaped the field of medical ethics. The book presents each famous (or infamous) case using extensive historical and contextual background, and then proceeds to illuminate it by careful discussion of pertinent philosophical theories and legal and ethical issues.

Table of Contents

Classic Cases about Death and Dying

Requests to Die: Elizabeth Bouvia and Larry McAfee

Comas: Karen Quinlan, Nancy Cruzan & Terri Schiavo

Physician-Assisted Dying: Oregon's Legalization

Classic Cases about the Beginnings of Human Life

Abortion: The Trial of Kenneth Edelin

Assisted Reproduction: Louise Brown and Beyond

Battles over Stem Cells and Embryos

Reproductive Cloning

Letting Impaired Newborns Die: The Baby Doe Cases

Interlude for Ethical Theory

Moral Reasoning and Ethical Theories in Medical Ethics

Classic Cases about Research

Animal Subjects: The Philadelphia Primate Study

Human Subjects: The Tuskegee Syphilis Study

Desires to Be First: Hand, Heart, & Face Transplants; Artificial Hearts & Separating Conjoined Twins

The God Committee; Problems of Just Allocation of Organs

Using One Baby to Help Another: Baby Fae and Baby Theresa Section V: Classic Cases about Individual Rights versus the Public Good

Involuntary Psychiatric Commitment: Joyce Brown

Ethical Issues and Genetic Diseases: The Challenge of Diabetes

Preventing the Global Spread of AIDS

Ethics & Financing Medicine: AmeriCare

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