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Title:

Classic works in medical ethics : core philosophical readings / edited by Gregory E. Pence.

Publisher:

McGraw-Hill,

Copyright Date:

c1998

Description:

xii, 399 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Medical ethics.
Ethics, Medical--Collected Works.

Other Authors:

Pence, Gregory E.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:

Introduction: How society should respond to AIDS / Richard Mohr. Active and passive euthanasia / James Rachels -- On killing patients with kindness: an appeal for caution / Alan J. Weisbard and Mark Siegler -- Cognitive criterion of personhood / Joseph Fletcher -- Voluntary active euthanasia / Dan W. Brock -- Right to suicide: a psychiatrist's view / Jerome A. Motto -- Physician-assisted dying: self-determination run amok / Daniel Callahan -- Moral status of the embryo / Peter Singer -- "Making babies" revisited / Leon R. Kass -- Ending reproductive roulette / Joseph Fletcher -- Case against surrogate parenting / Herbert T. Krimmel -- Surrogate mothers: not so novel after all / John A. Robertson -- Defense of abortion / Judith Jarvis Thomson -- On the moral and legal status of abortion / Mary Anne Warren -- Why abortion is immoral / Don Marquis -- Abortion and infanticide / Michael Tooley -- Involuntary euthanasia of defective newborns / John A. Robertson -- All animals are equal / Peter Singer -- Allocation of exotic medical lifesaving therapy / Nicholas Rescher -- Alcoholics and liver transplantation / Carl Cohen, Martin Benjamin, and the Ethics and Social Impact Committee of the Transplant and Health Policy Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan -- Rationing failure: ethical lessons of retransplantation / Peter A. Ubel, Robert M. Arnold, and Arthur L. Caplan -- Case for involuntary hospitalization of the mentally ill / Paul Chodoff -- Involuntary mental hospitalization: a crime against humanity / Thomas Szasz -- Bad axioms in genetic engineering / C. Keith Boone -- Moral issues in human genetics: counseling or control? / Ruth Macklin -- Resisting reductionism from the Human Genome Project / Robert N. Proctor -- Saint Martin of Tours in a new world of medical ethics / Richard D. Lamm -- For and against equal access to health care / Amy Gutmann -- How society should respond to AIDS / Richard Mohr.

ISBN:

9780070381155 (acid-free paper)
0070381151 (acid-free paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)36501211

LCCN:

97001300

Locations:

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

URAX314 -- Clarke University - Nicholas J. Schrup Library (Dubuque)

UTAX115 -- Buena Vista University Library (Storm Lake)