Intervention and Reflection Basic Issues in Medical Ethics

by Munson, Ronald

• ISBN13: 9780534520397
• ISBN10: 0534520391
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-08-17
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Summary

This best-selling textbook and reader continues to set the standard in medical ethics. It contains the necessary background information, readings, and case studies to help readers appreciate the complex moral and social issues of modern medicine. The book's non-technical approach gives readers with little or no philosophy or medical background the opportunity to participate in discussions about the many thought-provoking issues that concern medical ethicists.

Table of Contents

Moral Principles, Ethical Theories, and Medical Decisions: An Introduction	1	(58)
PART I: TERMINATION	59	(194)
Abortion	60	(75)
Impaired Infants and Medical Futility	135	(54)
Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide	189	(64)
PART II: RIGHTS	253	(304)
Race, Gender, and Medicine	254	(65)
Hiv and Aids: Still a Problem	319	(58)
Physicians, Patients, and Others: Autonomy, Truth Telling, and Confidentiality	377	(85)
Research Ethics and Informed Consent	462	(95)
PART III: CONTROLS	557	(178)
Genetics: Intervention, Control, and Research	558	(88)
Reproductive Control: Assisted Reproduction and Ethics	646	(89)
PART IV: RESOURCES	735	(134)
Acquiring and Allocating Scarce Medical Resources	736	(68)
The Claim to Health Care	804	(65)
Notes and References for Introductions, Cases, and Scenarios	869	(18)
General Resources in Bioethics	887