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Contemporary Issues in Bioethics
ISBN: 9780534223144 | 0534223141
Edition: 4thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
Pub. Date: 1/24/1994
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Offers a lucid overview of the central issues in bioethics today, including reproductive technologies, right-to-die, AIDS, eugenics, and human genetics. Presenting differing viewpoints from world-renowned scholars, this thought-provoking book provides an excellent framework for analyzing key issues.
| Preface | |
| Ethical Theory and Bioethics | p. 1 |
| Fundamental Problems | p. 1 |
| The Study of Morality | p. 1 |
| Moral Dilemmas and Disagreements | p. 3 |
| Relativism and Objectivity in Ethics | p. 7 |
| Moral Justification | p. 10 |
| Types of Ethical Theory | p. 11 |
| Utilitarian Theories | p. 12 |
| Kantian Theories | p. 14 |
| Con... MORE | p. 17 |
| Virtue Ethics | p. 17 |
| The Ethics of Care | p. 19 |
| Casuistry | p. 20 |
| Major Ethical Principles | p. 22 |
| Respect for Autonomy | p. 22 |
| Beneficence | p. 24 |
| Justice | p. 26 |
| Ethics, Law, and Public Policy | p. 29 |
| Ethics and Public Affairs | p. 29 |
| Morality and Law | p. 30 |
| Legal and Moral Rights | p. 31 |
| Law, Authority, and Autonomy | p. 32 |
| Rights and Responsibilities | p. 39 |
| Professional Codes | |
| "The Hippocratic Oath" | p. 43 |
| "Fundamental Elements of the Patient-Physician Relationship (1990)" | p. 44 |
| "Code for Nurses (1985)" | p. 45 |
| "Declaration of Helsinki (Hong Kong, 1989)" | p. 49 |
| The Virtues and Obligations of Professionals | |
| "The Virtuous Physician and the Ethics of Medicine" | p. 51 |
| "Separating Care and Cure: An Analysis of Historical and Contemporary Images of Nursing and Medicine" | p. 58 |
| "The Ideal Advocate and Limited Resources" | p. 69 |
| "Third-Party Interests" | p. 75 |
| Professionals and Specific Patient Populations | |
| "Unconscious on a Corner"... | p. 85 |
| "Gender Disparities in Clinical Decision Making" | p. 87 |
| "The Goals of Medicine in an Aging Society" | p. 93 |
| "The Case for Involuntary Hospitalization of the Mentally Ill" | p. 102 |
| Moral Quandaries of Professionals | |
| "When Competent Patients Make Irrational Choices" | p. 109 |
| "Medical Ethics and Medical Injuries: Taking Our Duties Seriously" | p. 115 |
| The Management of Medical Information | p. 123 |
| Truth Telling and the Management of Bad News | |
| "Bad News: Delivery, Dialogue, and Dilemmas" | p. 131 |
| "On Telling Patients the Truth" | p. 137 |
| Informed Consent | |
| "Canterbury v. Spence" | p. 142 |
| "Physicians and Patients: A History of Silence" | p. 145 |
| "The Concept of Informed Consent" | p. 148 |
| Patient Self-Determination and Advance Directives | |
| "Sources of Concern About the Patient Self-Determination Act" | p. 153 |
| "The Patient Self-Determination Act: On Balance, More Help Than Hindrance" | p. 160 |
| Managing Information in Randomized Clinical Trials | |
| "Of Mice but Not Men: Problems of the Randomized Clinical Trial" | p. 163 |
| "Equipoise and the Ethics of Clinical Research" | p. 168 |
| The Management of Confidential Information | |
| "Tarasoff v. Regents of the University of California" | p. 174 |
| "Confidentiality in Medicine - A Decrepit Concept" | p. 179 |
| "Is It Permissible to Edit Medical Records?" | p. 182 |
| Reproductive Technologies and Surrogate Parenting Arrangements | p. 187 |
| Parenting and the Family | |
| "Artificial Means of Reproduction and Our Understanding of the Family" | p. 191 |
| "Motherhood: Beyond Patriarchy" | p. 198 |
| "Ethics and the New Reproductive Technologies" | p. 201 |
| The Problem of Infertility | |
| "The Demography of Infertility" | p. 206 |
| "Infertility" | p. 210 |
| "Infertility as Disability" | p. 211 |
| In Vitro Fertilization | |
| "The Ethics of In Vitro Fertilization" | p. 216 |
| "Feminist Ethics and In Vivo Fertilization" | p. 224 |
| Surrogate Parenting Arrangements | |
| "Is Women's Labor a Commodity?" | p. 233 |
| "Surrogate Mothering: Exploitation or Empowerment?" | p. 244 |
| "The Ethics and Economics of Enforcing Contracts of Surrogate Motherhood" | p. 253 |
| "Choosing Family Law over Contract Law as a Paradigm for Surrogate Motherhood" | p. 258 |
| Abortion and Maternal-Fetal Relations | p. 271 |
| The Problem of Moral Justification | |
| "An Almost Absolute Value in History" | p. 279 |
| "A Defense of Abortion" | p. 283 |
| "The Morality of Abortion" | p. 292 |
| "On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion" | p. 302 |
| Legal Issues of Abortion | |
| "Roe v. Wade: Majority Opinion and Dissent" | p. 312 |
| "City of Akron v. Akron Center for Reproductive Health" | p. 316 |
| "Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Robert P. Casey, et al., etc." | p. 319 |
| Maternal-Fetal Relationships and Rights | |
| "Automobile Workers v. Johnson Controls, Inc." | p. 326 |
| "Johnson v. State of Florida" | p. 329 |
| "In Re A.C." | p. 332 |
| "Cesareans and Samaritans" | p. 337 |
| "Should Mom Be Constrained in the Best Interests of the Fetus?" | p. 343 |
| The Right to Die | p. 351 |
| Decisions by Competent Adults | |
| "The Medical Directive" | p. 355 |
| "The Values History" | p. 363 |
| "Is There a Right to Die?" | p. 371 |
| Decisions on Behalf of the Formerly Competent | |
| "Guidelines on the Termination of Life-Sustaining Treatment and the Care of the Dying" | p. 381 |
| "Cruzan v. Director, Missouri Department of Health" | p. 383 |
| "Woman in Right-to-Die Case Succumbs" | p. 403 |
| "Beyond Cruzan: Individual Rights, Family Autonomy and the Persistent Vegetative State" | p. 404 |
| Decisions About Infants | |
| "The Johns Hopkins Case" | p. 413 |
| "Selective Nontreatment of Handicapped Newborns" | p. 414 |
| "Treating Baby Doe: The Ethics of Uncertainty" | p. 419 |
| Active Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide | p. 431 |
| The Distinction Between Active Killing and Allowing to Die | |
| Active and Passive Euthanasia | p. 439 |
| "A Reply to Rachels on Active and Passive Euthanasia" | p. 442 |
| When is Forgoing Treatment also Killing? | |
| "In the Matter of Claire C. Conroy" | p. 450 |
| "In the Matter of Claire C. Conroy" | p. 452 |
| "In the Matter of Claire C. Conroy" | p. 455 |
| "Brophy v. New England Sinai Hospital" | p. 455 |
| "Cruzan v. Director, Missouri Dept. of Health" | p. 459 |
| "Vital Distinctions, Mortal Questions: Debating Euthanasia and Health-Care Costs" | p. 461 |
| "Recognizing the Tragic Choice: Food, Water, and the Right to Assisted Suicide" | p. 465 |
| Physician-Assisted Suicide and Voluntary Active Euthanasia | |
| "McKay v. Bergstedt" | p. 472 |
| "Death and Dignity: A Case of Individualized Decision Making" | p. 479 |
| "Euthanasia as a Distortion of the Healing Relationship" | p. 483 |
| "When Self-Determination Runs Amok" | p. 485 |
| "Voluntary Active Euthanasia" | p. 490 |
| The Netherlands Experience | |
| "A Case Against Dutch Euthanasia" | p. 500 |
| "Euthanasia in The Netherlands" | p. 506 |
| The Global AIDS Epidemic | p. 513 |
| General Issues | |
| "Ethical Issues in the Prevention and Treatment of HIV and AIDS" | p. 517 |
| "A Disease of Society" | p. 528 |
| "The Social Impact of AIDS in the United States" | p. 530 |
| "Public Health Policy and the AIDS Epidemic: An End to HIV Exceptionalism?" | p. 534 |
| The Duty to Warn and the Duty Not to Harm | |
| "Sex, Lies, and HIV" | p. 539 |
| "AIDS and Privacy" | p. 541 |
| "The Duty to Warn 'Dilemma' and Women with AIDS" | p. 549 |
| Testing and Screening Programs | |
| "Mandatory HIV Screening and Testing" | p. 557 |
| "The Ethics of Screening for Early Intervention in HIV Disease" | p. 571 |
| "HIV Infection, Pregnant Women and Newborns: A Policy Proposal for Information and Testing" | p. 581 |
| A Global Perspective | |
| "AIDS in the World" | p. 589 |
| Eugenics and Human Genetics | p. 593 |
| Eugenics Programs in the United States and Germany | |
| "Eugenic Sterilization in the United States" | p. 597 |
| "Buck v. Bell (1927)" | p. 607 |
| "Carrie Buck's Daughter" | p. 609 |
| "Sterilization and the Nazi Biomedical Vision" | p. 614 |
| The Human Genome Project and Genetic Testing | |
| "The Human Genome Project: Plans, Status, and Applications in Biology and Medicine" | p. 622 |
| "Which Ills to Bear?: Reevaluating the 'Threat' of Modern Genetics" | p. 629 |
| "Discrimination as a Consequence of Genetic Testing" | p. 637 |
| "Genomics and Eugenics: How Fair Is the Comparison?" | p. 644 |
| Human Gene Therapy | |
| "Ethical Issues in Human Gene Therapy" | p. 651 |
| "Human Gene Therapy" | p. 659 |
| "Position Paper on Human Germ Line Manipulation" | p. 668 |
| Justice in the Distribution of Health Care | p. 675 |
| Just Health Care and the Right to Health Care | |
| "Securing Access to Health Care" | p. 683 |
| "Justice, the Basic Social Contract, and Health Care" | p. 689 |
| "The Right to a Decent Minimum of Health Care" | p. 695 |
| "Rights to Health Care" | p. 701 |
| Universal Health Insurance and Universal Access | |
| "Toward Justice in Health Care" | p. 707 |
| "It Is Time for Universal Access, Not Universal Insurance" | p. 716 |
| "A Consumer-Choice Health Plan for the 1990s: Universal Health Insurance in a System Designed to Promote Quality and Economy" | p. 718 |
| "An Ethical Evaluation of Health Care in the United States" | p. 727 |
| Rationing Health Care and the Oregon Plan | |
| "The Oregon Priority-Setting Exercise: Quality of Life and Public Policy" | p. 734 |
| "Is the Oregon Rationing Plan Fair?" | p. 739 |
| "Ethics and Priority Setting in Oregon" | p. 745 |
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