Medical ethics : accounts of ground-breaking cases / Gregory E. Pence, University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Edition:
Seventh edition.
Publisher:
McGraw-Hill,
Copyright Date:
2015
Description:
xx, 365, 32, 14 pages ; 23 cm
Other Titles:
Classic cases in medical ethics
Notes:
Editions 1-5 published under: Classic cases in medical ethics. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Ethical reasoning, moral theories, principles, and bioethics -- Requests to die: non-terminal patients -- Requests to die: terminal patients -- Comas: Karen Quinlan, Nancy Cruzan, and Terri Schiavo -- Abortion : the trial of Kenneth Edelin -- Assisted reproduction, multiple births, and elderly parents -- Embryos, stem cells, and cloning -- The ethics of treating impaired babies -- Medical research on animals -- Medical research on vulnerable human subjects -- Surgeons' desire for fame: ethics of the first transplants -- Just distribution of organs: the God committee and personal responsibility -- Using one baby for another, babies Fae, Gabriel and Theresa and conjoined twins -- Ethical issues of intersex and transgender persons -- Involuntary psychiatric commitment: the case of Joyce Brown -- Ethical issues in testing for genetic disease -- Ethical issues in stopping the global spread of AIDS -- Ethical issues of the Affordable Care Act -- Ethical issues in medical enhancement.
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