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Title:

Medicine unbound : the human body and the limits of medical intervention / edited by Robert H. Blank, Andrea L. Bonnicksen.

Publisher:

Columbia University Press,

Copyright Date:

c1994

Description:

ix, 287 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Health Policy--United States.
Life and death, Power over--Decision making.
Medical ethics--United States.
Medical policy--United States--Moral and ethical aspects.
Medical technology.
Right to die--United States--Decision making.
Ethics, Medical--United States.
Right to die--United States.
Medicine--trends
Public Policy--United States.

Other Authors:

Blank, Robert H.
Bonnicksen, Andrea L.

Other Titles:

The human body and the limits of medical intervention.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:

What is the "inviolability of persons"? / Carson Strong -- The substrata of biomedical policy : dichotomies in somatic technology / Lynton Keith Caldwell -- The Church and the restructuring of humans / Albert S. Moraczewski -- Postmodernity and limits on the human body : libertarianism by default / H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr., and Kevin Wm. Wildes -- A tortuous dilemma : maternal inviolability versus fetal medicine / Clifford Grobstein -- Fetal interventions : the biomedical politics of maternal/fetal rights / Cynthia R. Daniels -- Our most important product / George J. Annas -- The prospect of human genetic engineering / Robert L. Sinsheimer -- Manipulating human life : is there no end to it? / Daniel Callahan -- On the road to someday : a personal journey / Andrew H. Malcolm --Limits and possibilities : the patient self-determination act / Elizabeth L. McCloskey -- Advance directives as instruments of moral persuasion / Robert F. Weir --Proposed clinical criteria for physician-assisted suicide / Timothy E. Quill, Christine K. Cassel, and Diane E. Meier -- California proposition 161 : physician-assisted death-terminal condition-initiative statute -- Euthanasia as power and empowerment / David C. Thomasma -- Managing the unmanageable : the case against euthanasia / Carlos F. Gomez -- The changing role of the physician in the care of the dying / Robert J. Miller -- Physician-assisted dying : the conflict with fundamental principles of American law / David Orentlicher -- AIDS and empowerment : the ethical issues / James A. Serafini.
What is the "inviolability of persons"? / Carson Strong -- The substrata of biomedical policy : dichotomies in somatic technology / Lynton Keith Caldwell -- The Church and the restructuring of humans / Albert S. Moraczewski -- Postmodernity and limits on the human body : libertarianism by default / H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr., and Kevin Wm. Wildes.

Series:

Emerging issues in biomedical policy ; v.3

ISBN:

9780231081498 (pbk.)
0231081499 (pbk.)
9780231081481
0231081480

OCLC:

(OCoLC)30936434

LCCN:

94041829

Locations:

O4AX446 -- Chadwick Library

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

O3AX572 -- Cornell College - Russell D. Cole Library (Mount Vernon)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)

UTAX115 -- Buena Vista University Library (Storm Lake)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)