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Ethical issues in modern medicine / Bonnie Steinbock, John D. Arras, Alex John London.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Boston : McGraw-Hill, c2003.Edition: 6th edDescription: xxv, 830 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780767420167 (alk. paper)
  • 0767420160 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 174.2 21
LOC classification:
  • R724 .E788 2003
Contents:
Part 1. Foundations of the health professional-patient relationship -- Sect. 1. Autonomy, paternalism, and medical models -- Sect. 2. Informed consent -- Sect. 3. Conflicting professional roles and responsibilities -- Part 2. Allocation, social justice, and health policy -- Sect. 1. Justice and health care -- Sect. 2. Methods and strategies for rationing health care -- Sect. 3. Equality and the ends of medicine -- Part 3. Defining death, forgoing life-sustaining treatment, and euthanasia -- Sect. 1. The definition of death -- Sect. 2. Decisional capacity and the right to refuse treatment -- Sect. 3. Advance directives -- Sect. 4. Choosing for others -- Sect. 5. Euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide -- Part 4. Reprogenetics -- Sect. 1. The morality of abortion -- Sect. 2. Carrier screening, prenatal testing, and reproductive decisions -- Sect. 3. Mapping the human genome: implications for genetic testing, genetic counseling, and genetic interventions -- Sect. 4. Assisted reproductive technologies -- Sect. 5. Human cloning and stem cell research -- Part 5. Experimentation on human subjects -- Sect. 1. Born in scandal: the origins of U.S. research ethics -- Sect. 2. The ethics of randomized clinical trials -- Sect. 3. Ethical issues in international research -- Sect. 4. Research on children and other "vulnerable" populations.
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Includes bibliographical references.

Part 1. Foundations of the health professional-patient relationship -- Sect. 1. Autonomy, paternalism, and medical models -- Sect. 2. Informed consent -- Sect. 3. Conflicting professional roles and responsibilities -- Part 2. Allocation, social justice, and health policy -- Sect. 1. Justice and health care -- Sect. 2. Methods and strategies for rationing health care -- Sect. 3. Equality and the ends of medicine -- Part 3. Defining death, forgoing life-sustaining treatment, and euthanasia -- Sect. 1. The definition of death -- Sect. 2. Decisional capacity and the right to refuse treatment -- Sect. 3. Advance directives -- Sect. 4. Choosing for others -- Sect. 5. Euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide -- Part 4. Reprogenetics -- Sect. 1. The morality of abortion -- Sect. 2. Carrier screening, prenatal testing, and reproductive decisions -- Sect. 3. Mapping the human genome: implications for genetic testing, genetic counseling, and genetic interventions -- Sect. 4. Assisted reproductive technologies -- Sect. 5. Human cloning and stem cell research -- Part 5. Experimentation on human subjects -- Sect. 1. Born in scandal: the origins of U.S. research ethics -- Sect. 2. The ethics of randomized clinical trials -- Sect. 3. Ethical issues in international research -- Sect. 4. Research on children and other "vulnerable" populations.

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