Issues in Medical Ethics

Introduction

vii

Part One Formulating a Moral Methodology

(26)

Chapter One Ethical Decision-Making in the Medical Context

(26)

Part Two Ethical Issues at Life's Beginning

(70)

Chapter Two Abortion

(25)

Chapter Three Assisted Reproduction

(25)

Chapter Four Caring for Compromised Newborns

(20)

Part Three Moral Responses to New Technologies

(58)

Chapter Five Applications of Genetic Science

(20)

Chapter Six Fetal Tissue: Research and Transplants

119

(16)

Chapter Seven Artificially Provided Nutrition and Hydration

135

(22)

Part Four Ethical Responses to Sickness

157

(76)

Chapter Eight HIV/AIDS

157

(25)

Chapter Nine Experimentation in Medicine

182

(23)

Chapter Ten Organ Retrieval and Transplantation

205

(28)

Part Five Ethical Issues at the End of Life

233

(62)

Chapter Eleven Advance Directives

233

(21)

Chapter Twelve Euthanasia

254

(20)

Chapter Thirteen Important Distinctions

274

(21)

Part Six Ethical Issues for Health Care Professionals

295

(40)

Chapter Fourteen Paternalism and Autonomy

295

(16)

Chapter Fifteen Professionalism in Health Care Occupations

311

(24)

Part Seven Medicine and the Common Good

335

(41)

Chapter Sixteen Roles of the Courts, Government and Professional Societies in Biomedical Ethics

335

(21)

Chapter Seventeen Providing Health Care in the United States

356

(20)

Appedix Continued Reading and Research on Issues in Medical Ethics

376

(5)

Index

381

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