The Blackwell Guide to Medical Ethics

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Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell (2007)
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_The Blackwell Guide to Medical Ethics_ is a guide to the complex literature written on the increasingly dense topic of ethics in relation to the new technologies of medicine. Examines the key ethical issues and debates which have resulted from the rapid advances in biomedical technology Brings together the leading scholars from a wide range of disciplines, including philosophy, medicine, theology and law, to discuss these issues Tackles such topics as ending life, patient choice, selling body parts, resourcing and confidentiality Organized with a coherent structure that differentiates between the decisions of individuals and those of social policy

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R724.B515 2007

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9780470680605   9780470761328   9781405125833   9781405125840   1405125845   1405125837   0470680601
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Patient and family decisions about life-extension and death.Felicia Nimue Ackerman
Individual responsibility and reproduction.Rachel A. Ankeny
The Patient as Victim and Vector: The Challenge of Infectious Disease for Bioethics.Margaret P. Battin, Leslie P. Francis, Jay A. Jacobson & Charles B. Smith
Reproductive choice.Rebecca Bennett & John Harris
Ethics of Disclosure Following a Medical Injury: Time for Reform?Troyen Anthony Brennan
Patient competence and surrogate decision making.Dan Brock
Justice in Research on Human Subjects.David Buchanan & Franklin G. Miller
Just Caring: The Challenges of Priority‐Setting in Public Health.Leonard M. Fleck
Discrimination in medical practice : justice and the obligations of health care providers to disadvantaged patients.Leslie P. Francis
Truth telling.Roger Higgs
Drug legalization.Douglas N. Husak
Ending life.Frances Myrna Kamm
Medical confidentiality.Kenneth Kipnis
Justice and the Financing of Health Care.Stephen R. Latham
Abuses of Science in Medical Ethics.Glenn McGee & Dýrleif Bjarnadóttir
Allocation of Scarce Resources.Paul Menzel
Pre‐Existing Conditions: Genetic Testing, Causation, and the Justice of Medical Insurance.Robert T. Pennock
Introduction.Rosamond Rhodes, Leslie P. Francis & Anita Silvers
The professional responsibilities of medicine.Rosamond Rhodes
Selling Organs, Gametes, and Surrogacy Services.Janet Radcliffe Richards
Institutional practices, ethics, and the physician.V. Rorty Mary, E. Mills Ann & H. Werhane Patricia
Autonomy, the good life and controversial choices.Julian Savulescu
Judgment and Justice: Evaluating Health Care for Chronically Ill and Disabled Patients.Anita Silvers
Public policy and ending lives.Evert van Leeuwen & Gerrit Kimsma

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Author Profiles

Rosamond Rhodes
CUNY Graduate Center
Anita Silvers
Last affiliation: San Francisco State University
Leslie Francis
University of Utah

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