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Ethical Issues in Modern Medicine : Contemporary Readings in Bioethics

by: Steinbock, Bonnie; London, Alex John; Arras, John

ISBN: 9780073407357 | 0073407356

Edition: 7th
Format: Paperback
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Pub. Date: 1/25/2008

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Summary Table of Contents

This comprehensive anthology represents the key issues and problems in the field of biomedical ethics through the most up-to-date readings and case studies available. Each of the book's seven parts is prefaced with helpful introductions that raise important questions and skillfully contextualize the positions and main points of the articles that follow. This seventh edition updates and expands parts throughout the text, including the discussions of conflicting roles and responsibilities for medical professionals and justice in health care. A ne... MORE

(* indicates new to 7th edition) Preface The Contributers Introduction: Moral Reasoning in the Medical Context Bioethics: Nature and Scope Sources of Bioethical Problems and Concerns Challenges to Ethical Theory Moral Theories and Perspectives Religious Ethics "Rights-Based" Approaches Communitarian Ethics Virtue Ethics Nonmoral Considerations Modes of Moral Reasoning PART ONE: Foundations of the Health Professional-Patient Relationship Section 1: Autonomy, Paternalism, and Medical Models The Hippocratic Oath Alan Goldman, "The Refutation of Me... MOREdical Paternalism" Beneficience Today, or Autonomy (Maybe) Tomorrow? Bernice S. Elger, Commentary Jean-Claude Chevrolet, Commentary *Terrence F. Ackerman, "Why Doctors Should Intervene" Ezekiel J. Emanuel and Linda L. Emanuel, "Four Models of the Physician-Patient Relationship" Section 2: Informed Consent & Truth Telling John D. Arras, "Antihypertensives and the Risk of Temporary Impotence: A Case Study in Informed Consent" Jay Katz, "Informed Consent - Must it Remain a Fairy Tale?" Francoise Baylis, "Error in Medicine: Nurturing Truthfulness" *Leslie J. Blackhall, Gelya Frank, Sheila Murphy and Vicki Mitchel, "Bioethics In a Different Tongue: The Case of Truth-Telling" Benjamin Freedman, "Offering Truth" Section 3: Conflicting Professional Roles and Responsibilities Tarasoff v. Regents of the University of California Len Fleck and Marcia Angell, "Please Don''t Tell" Lainie Friedman Ross, "Disclosing Misattributed Paternity" *Dessmon YH Tai, "SARS Plague: Duty to Care or Medical Heroism" *Ezekiel J. Emanuel, "The Lessons of SARS" *Gregory L. Eastwood, Daniel Fu-Chang Tsai, Ding-Shinn Chenn and James Dwyer, "What Should the Dean Do?" *Julie Cantor and Ken Baum, "The Limits of Conscientious Objections - May Pharmacists Refuse to Fill Prescriptions for Emergency Contraception" *Atul Gawande, "When Law and Ethics Collide - Why Physicians Participate in Executions" *Ken Baum, "''To Comfort Always: Physician Participation in Executions" *Daniel Zupan, Gary Solis, Richard Schoonhoven and George Annas, "Dialysis for a Prisoner of War?" PART TWO: Allocation, Social Justice, and Health Policy Section 1: Justice, Health, and Health Care President''s Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research, "An Ethical Framework for Securing Access to Health Care" Norman Daniels, "Equal Opportunity and Health Care" H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr., "Freedom and Moral Diversity: The Moral Failures of Health Care in the Welfare State" *Richard Wilkinson and Michael Marmot, eds. for the World Health Organization, "The Social Determinants of Health: The Solid Facts" *Ichiro Kawachi, "Why the United States Is Not Number One in Health" *Norman Daniels, "Justice, Health, and Health Care" *Gopal Sreenivasan, "Opportunity Is Not the Key" Section 2: Allocating Scarce Resources Alex John London, "Bone Marrow Transplants for Advanced Breast Cancer: The Story of Christine deMeurers" *Ronald Dworkin, "Justice and the High Cost of Health" *Robert Steinbrook, "Imposing Personal Responsibility for Health" *Alexander W. Cappellen and Ole Frithjof Norheim, "Responsibility in Health Care: A Liberal Egalitarian Approach" Norman Daniels and James Sabin, "Last-Chance Therapies and Managed Care: Pluralism, Fair Procedures, and Legitimacy" *James Dwyer, "Illegal Immigrants, Health Care, and Social Responsibility" *John D. Arras, "Rationing Vaccine During an Avian Influenza Pandemic: Why It Won''t Be Easy" *Ezekiel J. Emanuel and Alan Wertheimer, "Who Should Get Flu Vaccine When Not All Can?" Section 3: Organ Transplantation: Gifts vs. Markets *Janet Radcliffe-Richards, Abdallah S. Daar, Ronald D. Guttman, Raymond Hoffenberg, Ian Kennedy, Margaret Lock, Robert A. Sells, Nicholas L. Tilney, for the International Forum for Transplant Ethics, "The Case for Allowing Kidney Sales" *Charles A. Erin and John Harris, "An Ethical Market in Human Organs" *Donald Joralemon and Phil Cox, "Body Values: The Case Against Compensating for Transplant Organs" Section 4: Poverty, Health, and Justice Beyond National Borders *Thomas A. Pogge, "Responsibilities for Poverty-Related Ill Health" *Mathias Risse, "Do We Owe the Global Poor Assistance or Rectification?" PART THREE: Defining Death, Forgoing Life-Sustaining Treatment, and Euthanasia Section 1: The Definition of Death President''s Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research, "Defining Death" *James L. Bernat, "The Whole-Brain Concept of Death Remains Optimum Public Policy" *Jeff McMahan, "An Alternative to Brain Death" Section 2: Decisional Capacity and the Right to Refuse Treatment State of Tennessee Department of Human Services v. Mary C. Northern: Transcript of Proceedings, Testimony of Mary C. Northern Allen Buchanan and Dan W. Brock, "Deciding for Others: Competency" Keith Burton, "A Chronicle: Dax''s Case as it Happened" Robert B. White, Commentary H. Tristram Engelhardt, Commentary Section 3: Advance Directives George J. Annas, "The Health Care Proxy and the Living Will" *Angela Fagerlin and Carl E. Schneider, "Enough: The Failure of the Living Will" Norman L. Cantor, "Testing the Limits of Precedent Autonomy: Five Scenarios" Section 4: Choosing for the Once-Competent *Jay Wolfson, "Erring on the Side of Theresa Schiavo: Reflections of the Special Guardian Ad Litem" *Wesley J. Smith, "''Human Non-Person''Terri Schiavo, Bioethics, and Our Future" In the Matter of Claire C. Conroy John D. Arras, "The Severely Demented, Minimally Functional Patient: An Ethical Analysis" U.S. Bishops Pro-Life Committee, "Nutrition and Hydration: Moral and Pastoral Reflections" Rebecca S. Dresser and John A. Robertson, "Quality of Life and Non-Treatment Decisions for Incompetent Patients: A Critique of the Orthodox Approach" Nancy K. Rhoden, "The Limits of Legal Objectivity" *Section 5: Choosing for the Never-Competent *Alicia Ouellette, "Termination of Life-Support for a Never-Competent Patient: the Sheila Pouliot Case" *John Robertson, "Extreme Prematurity and Parental Rights After Baby Doe" *John Paris, Michael D. Schreiber and Alun Elias-Jones, "Resuscitation of the Preterm Infant Against Parental Wishes" Section 6: Physician-Assisted Death Timothy E. Quill, "Death and Dignity: A Case of Individualized Decision Making" John D. Arras, "Physician-Assisted Suicide: A Tragic View" Assisted Suicide: an Amicus Curiae Brief Ronald Dworkin, "Introduction" Ronald Dworkin, Thomas Nagel, Robert Nozick, John Rawls, Thomas Scanlon, and Judith Jarvis Thomson, "The Philosophers'' Brief" Margaret Battin, "Euthanasia: The Way We Do It, The Way They Do It" (updates for the new edition) John Hardwig, "Is There A Duty to Die?" Felicia Nimue Ackerman, "''For Now Have I My Death'':the ''Duty to Die'' versus the Duty to Help the Ill Stay Alive" PART FOUR: Reproduction Section 1: The Morality of Abortion Pope John Paul II, "The Unspeakable Crime of Abortion" Don Marquis, "Why Abortion is Immoral" Bonnie Steinbock, "Why Most Abortions Are Not Wrong" Judith Jarvis Thomson, "A Defense of Abortion" Margaret Olivia Little, "The Morality of Abortion" Section 2: Obligations to the Not-Yet-Born *Howard Minkoff and Lynn M. Paltrow, "The Rights of ''Unborn Children'' and the Value of Pregnant Women" Allen Buchanan, Dam Brock, Norman Daniels and Daniel Wikler, "Reproductive Freedom and the Prevention of Genetically Transmitted Harmful Conditions" *Richard J. Hull, "Cheap Listening? - Reflections on the Concept of Wrongful Disability" Section 3: Assisted Reproduction John A. Robertson, "The Presumptive Primacy of Procreative Liberty" Vatican, "In

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