Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Bioethical Issues

by Levine, Carol

• ISBN13: 9780073031903
• ISBN10: 0073031909
• Edition: 8th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-04-01
• Publisher: McGraw Hill College Div

Summary

Debates the ethical issues surrounding such medical decisions as assisted suicide, late-term abortion, cochlear implants, human cloning, and genetic testing

Table of Contents

PART 1 MEDICAL DECISION MAKING	1	(44)
Is Informed Consent Still Central to Medical Ethics?	2	(18)
Can Family Interests Ethically Outweigh Patient Autonomy?	20	(25)
PART 2 DEATH AND DYING	45	(72)
Are Some Advance Directives Too Risky for Patients?	46	(18)
Should Physicians Be Allowed to Assist in Patient Suicide?	64	(16)
Is It Ethical to Withhold the Truth from Dying Patients?	80	(24)
Should Doctors Be Able to Refuse Demands for ``Futile'' Treatment?	104	(13)
PART 3 CHOICES IN REPRODUCTION	117	(28)
Should Abortions Late in Pregnancy Be Banned?	118	(12)
Should Pregnant Women Be Punished for Exposing Fetuses to Risk?	130	(15)
PART 4 CHILDREN AND BIOETHICS	145	(46)
Do Electronic Hearing Devices Deprive Deaf Children of Their Culture?	146	(14)
Should Adolescents Make Their Own Life-and-Death Decisions?	160	(16)
Do Parents Harm Their Children When They Refuse Medical Treatment on Religious Grounds?	176	(15)
PART 5 GENETICS	191	(50)
Should Human Cloning Be Banned?	192	(16)
Should Health Insurance Companies Have Access to Information from Genetic Testing?	208	(14)
Should Parents Always Be Told of Genetic-Testing Availability?	222	(19)
PART 6 HUMAN AND ANIMAL EXPERIMENTATION	241	(40)
Should Animal Experimentation Be Permitted?	242	(18)
Are Placebo Studies of Maternal-Fetal HIV Transmission Ethical in the Developing World?	260	(21)
PART 7 BIOETHICS AND PUBLIC POLICY	281
Should Health Care for the Elderly Be Limited?	282
Should Patient-Centered Medical Ethics Govern Managed Care?	296
Should There Be a Market in Body Parts?	318
Should Cases of HIV Infection Be Reported by Name?	336