Screen LibraryEthical issues in modern medicine
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| Group Author: | ; |
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McGraw-Hill,
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| Publisher Address: | Boston |
| Publication Dates: | c2003. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | 6th ed. |
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| Carrier Form: | xxv, 830 p.: ; 23 cm. |
| ISBN: |
0767420160 (alk. paper) 9780767420167 (alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | R |
| CLC: | R-052 |
| Call Number: | R-052/S819/6th.ed. |
| Contents: |
Page 4 of cover: "part of 0072833491." 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. |