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9780300093964

The Patient as Person; Explorations in Medical Ethics, Second Edition

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    9780300093964

  • ISBN10:

    0300093969

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Trade Paper
  • Copyright: 2002-05-11
  • Publisher: Yale University Press

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Summary

As physicians are faced with new and wonderful options for saving lives, transplanting organs, and furthering research, they also must wrestle with new and troubling choices -- who should receive scarce and vital treatment, how we determine when life ends, what limits should be placed on care for the dying, and more. This book by renowned theologian Paul Ramsey, first published thirty years ago, anticipated these moral and ethical issues and addressed them with cogency and power, providing the intellectual foundations for the field of bioethics. This second edition of Ramsey's classic work includes a new foreword by Margaret Farley and essays by Albert R. Jonsen and William F. May that help to locate and interpret Ramsey historically and intellectually.

Table of Contents

Foreword xi
Margaret A. Farley
``The Structure of an Ethical Revolution: Paul Ramsey, The Beecher Lectures, and the Birth of Bioethics'' xvi
Albert R. Jonsen
``The Patient as Person: Beyond Ramsey's Beecher Lectures'' xxix
William F. May
Preface xliv
Consent as a Canon of Loyalty with Special Reference to Children in Medical Investigations
1(58)
Ethics in the Consent Situation
3(2)
The Ethics of Consent
5(6)
Research Involving Children or Incompetents
11(8)
The Guidelines
19(7)
Pro and Con
26(14)
Children in Institutions
40(19)
On Updating Procedures for Stating That a Man Has Died
59(54)
The Challenge to Old-Fashioned Death
59(4)
What Death Is and Telling That Death Has Occurred
63(5)
Updating Death
68(21)
The Harvard Report
89(9)
On Not Confusing Death with Stopping Extraordinary Means
98(3)
On Not Confusing Death with ``Organ Donor Eligibility''
101(12)
On (Only) Caring for the Dying
113(52)
The Problem
114(4)
Ordinary and Extraordinary Means
118(6)
The Morality of (Only) Caring for the Dying
124(8)
The Process of Dying
132(4)
Caring for the Seriously Ill and the Irreversibly III
136(8)
The Same Objection from Two Opposite Extremes
144(13)
Two Possible Qualifications of Our Duty Always to Care for the Dying
157(8)
The Self-Giving of Vital Organs: A Case Study in Comparative Ethics
165(33)
Am I My Twin Brother's Keeper?
165(10)
The State of the Question in Roman Catholic Morals
175(6)
Transimplantation as a Single, Uninterrupted Action
181(4)
The State of the Question in a Possible Protestant Position
185(3)
A Meditation on Medicine's Ministry to the Flesh
188(10)
Giving or Taking Cadaver Organs for Transplant
198(18)
A Caveat on Heart Transplants
216(23)
In the Prism of a Far Away Case
216(5)
Heart Transplants as Investigational Trials
221(6)
Heart Transplants as Treatment, Elective Only
227(12)
Choosing How to Choose: Patients and Sparse Medical Resources
239(38)
Let the Better Man Live
242(10)
A Human Lottery?
252(7)
All Should Die When Not All Can Be Saved
259(7)
How Shall Sparse Medical Resources Be Distributed Justly?
266(11)
Index 277

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