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- Condition
- Good
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- Level
- Advanced, Proficiency
- Country/Region of Manufacture
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- ISBN
- 9780312152697
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Bedford/Saint Martin's
ISBN-10
0312152698
ISBN-13
9780312152697
eBay Product ID (ePID)
817587
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
295 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Cases in Bioethics : Selections from the Hastings Center Report
Subject
Ethics, General
Publication Year
1998
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Philosophy, Medical
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
15.2 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Edition Number
3
Intended Audience
College Audience
LCCN
97-065208
Illustrated
Yes
Table Of Content
Preface PART I. HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS RESPONSIBILITIES AND PATIENTS RIGHTS Introduction 1. Professional Conduct When the Doctor and Minister Disagree The Nurses Appeal to Conscience The Usual Suspects Culture, Healing, and Professional Obligation When the Doctor is on Drugs 2. Informed Consent Proxy Consent for a Medical Gamble Faith Healing for Childhood Leukemia Who Speaks for the Patient with the Locked-In Syndrome? Make Me Live: Autonomy and Terminal Illness 3. Privacy and Confidentiality AIDS and a Duty to Protect A Duty to Warn, An Uncertain Danger The Price of Silence Selected Bibliography PART II. REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS AND TECHNOLOGIES Introduction 4. Reproductive Rights Cancer and Maybe a Baby When a Pregnant Woman Endangers Her Fetus Live Sperm, Dead Bodies Maternal Rights, Fetal Harms 5. Abortion When a Mentally Ill Woman Refuses Abortion Selective Termination of Pregnancy Selected Bibliography PART III. DEATH AND DYING Introduction 6. Decisions About Death For Love or Money Does Doing Everything Include CPR? Surgical Risks and Advance Directives Nurturing a Defective Newborn The Second-Hand Suicide Threat 7. Refusal of Life-Sustaining Treatment and Euthanasia A Demand to Die Family Wishes and Patient Autonomy If I Have AIDS, Then Let Me Die Now! Whether No Means No No Feeding Tubes for Me! When the Doctor Gives a Deadly Dose Selected Bibliography PART IV. RESEARCH WITH LIVING SUBJECTS Introduction 8. Consent to Research Hope and the Limits of Research For the Benefit of All Informed Consent in the Developing World 9. Selection of Subjects and Protection of Their Welfare Can a Research Subject be Too Eager to Consent? Can a Healthy Subject Volunteer to be Injured in Research? Nazi Data: Dissociation from Evil The Heart of the Matter Selected Bibliography PART V. DECISION MAKING CAPACITY Introduction 10. Involuntary Treatment The Tracheostomy Tube Aint Nobody Gonna Cut on My Head! The Woman Who Died in a Box Preterm Labor and Prenatal Harm 11. Decisions on Behalf of the Incompetent WORD OF MOUTH Sterilizing the Retarded Child Should Competence be Coerced? The Forgetful Mourner PART VI. ALLOCATION AND HEALTH CARE POLICY INTRODUCTION 12. Allocation of Scarce Resources How Best Shall We Serve? Forced Transfer to Custodial Care The Last Bed in the ICU Two Cardiac Arrests, One Medical Team The Doctor, The Patient, and The DRG The HMO Physicians Duty to Cut Costs The Noncompliant Substance Abuser 13. Organ Procurement and Transplantation In Organ Transplants, Americans First? The Anencephalic Newborn as Organ Donor Can the Fetus be an Organ Farm? Health Care Policy But Is He Genetically Diseased? My Conscience, Your Money Who Pays for AZT? When is Home Care Medically Necessary Palliation in the Age of Chronic Disease Selected Bibliography Glossary
Synopsis
Cases in Bioethics, Third Edition, contains 59 cases, each of which presents a difficult question that regularly confronts medical practitioners. Each case is discussed by two or three ethicists, physicians, or hospital administrators, placing students in the thick of each difficult situation., Cases in Bioethics, Third Edition , contains 59 cases, each of which presents a difficult question that regularly confronts medical practitioners. Each case is discussed by two or three ethicists, physicians, or hospital administrators, placing students in the thick of each difficult situation.
LC Classification Number
R724.C36 1998
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