Bioethics

by Furrow, Barry R.; Greaney, Thomas L.; Johnson, Sandra H.; Jost, Timothy Stoltzfus; Schwartz, Robert L.

• ISBN13: 9780314251862
• ISBN10: 0314251863
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-07-01
• Publisher: West Academic

Table of Contents

Preface	v
Acknowledgments	vii
Table of Cases	xix
The Study of Bioethics	1	(35)
An Introduction to the Study of Ethics and Ethical Theories	1	(26)
Health Care Professions' Statements on Ethics	27	(9)
Human Reproduction and Birth	36	(135)
When Does Human Life Become a ``Person''?	37	(14)
Medical Intervention In Reproduction	51	(106)
Fetal Maternal Decisionmaking	157	(14)
Legal, Social and Ethical Issues in Human Genetics	171	(28)
Introduction	171	(3)
Legal Responses to Privacy, Confidentiality, Consent and Discrimination	174	(20)
Genetic Screening	194	(5)
Defining Death	199	(29)
Introduction	200	(1)
The Development of the ``Brain Death'' Definition	201	(9)
The ``Dead Donor'' Rule and Expanding Classes of Organ Donors-Anencephalic Infants and ``non-Heart Beating'' Donors	210	(16)
Religious and Other Objections to Definitions of Death: Letting the Patient Decide Which Definition to Use	226	(2)
Life and Death Decisions	228	(156)
Principles of Autonomy and Beneficence	228	(5)
The United States Constitution and the ``Right To Die''	233	(13)
The ``Right to Die''-Patients With Decisional Capacity	246	(18)
The ``Right to Die''-Patients Without Decisional Capacity	264	(68)
The ``Right to Die''-Children and Newborns	332	(14)
Criminal & Civil Liability In ``Right to Die'' Cases	346	(2)
Physician Assisted Death	348	(36)
Distributive Justice and the Allocation of Health Care Resources-The Example of Human Organ Transportation	384	(26)
Introduction	384	(7)
Rationing of Scarce Human Organs	391	(6)
Increasing the Supply of Organs for Transplantation: The Impact of Legal Restraints	397	(13)
Interdisciplinary Decisionmaking in Health Care: Regulation of Research Involving Human Subjects, Ethics Committees, And Advisory Committees	410	(41)
Regulation of Research Upon Human Subjects	412	(28)
Institutional Ethics Committees	440	(7)
National and State Commissions	447	(4)
Index	451