Medical Ethics: Accounts of Ground-Breaking Cases
ISBN: 9780073407494 | 0073407496
Edition: 6thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Pub. Date: 3/29/2010
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Previously published: Classis cases in medical ethics. 2008
Now in its twentieth year of publication, this rich collection, popular among teachers and students alike, provides an in-depth look at major cases that have shaped the field of medical ethics. The book presents each famous (or infamous) case using extensive historical and contextual background, and then proceeds to illuminate it by careful discussion of pertinent philosophical theories and legal and ethical issues.
Now in its twentieth year of publication, this rich collection, popular among teachers and students alike, provides an in-depth look at major cases that have shaped the field of medical ethics. The book presents each famous (or infamous) case using extensive historical and contextual background, and then proceeds to illuminate it by careful discussion of pertinent philosophical theories and legal and ethical issues.
| Classic Cases about Death and Dying | |
| Requests to Die: Elizabeth Bouvia and Larry McAfee | |
| Comas: Karen Quinlan, Nancy Cruzan & Terri Schiavo | |
| Physician-Assisted Dying: New Frontiers | |
| Classic Cases about the Beginnings of Human Life | |
| Abortion: The Trial of Kenneth Edelin | |
| Assisted Reproduction, Multiple Births and Elderly Parents--Time to Regulate? | |
| Embryos, S... MORE | |
| The Ethics Of Treating Impaired Babies | |
| Can Medical Research on Animals Be Justified? The Gennarelli and Taub Cases | |
| Interlude for Ethical Theory | |
| Research on Human Subjects | |
| Classic Cases about Research | |
| Surgeons' Desire for Fame: The Ethics of the First Heart, Hand & Face Transplants | |
| Human Subjects: The Tuskegee Syphilis Study | |
| Using One Baby for Another: Babies Fae, Gabriel, & Theresa, and Conjoined Twins | |
| Involuntary Psychiatric Commitment: The Case of Joyce Brown | |
| Testing In Advance For Genetic Disease | |
| Classic Cases about Individual Rights versus the Public Good | |
| Preventing the Global Spread of AIDS | |
| Medicine and Inequality | |
| David Reimer, the "John/Joan Case" | |
| Ethical Theories and Bioethics | |
| Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved. |
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