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Author:

Pence, Gregory E.

Title:

Classic cases in medical ethics : accounts of the cases that have shaped and define medical ethics / Gregory Pence.

Edition:

5th ed.

Publisher:

McGraw-Hill Higher Education,

Copyright Date:

c2008

Description:

xxiii, 365 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Medical ethics--Case studies.
Bioethical Issues--United States.
Ethics, Medical--history--United States.
Ethics, Clinical--history--United States.
History, 20th Century--United States.
Patient Rights--legislation & jurisprudence--United States.
Social Justice--ethics--United States.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. N-1-N-26) and indexes.

Contents:

Requests to die: Elizabeth Bouvia and Larry McAfee -- Comas: Karen Quinlan, Nancy Cruzan & Teri Schiavo -- Physician-assisted dying: Oregon's legalization -- Abortion: the trial of Kenneth Edelin -- Assisted reproduction: Louise Brown and beyond -- Battles over stem cells and embryos -- Reproductive cloning -- Letting impaired newborns die: the baby Doe cases -- Ethical theories in medical ethics -- Animal subjects: the Philadelphia primate study -- human subjects: the Tuskegee syphilis study -- Desires to be first: hand, heart, & face transplants: artificial hearts and separating conjoined twins -- The God committee: problems of just allocation of organs -- Using one baby to help another: baby Fae and baby Theresa -- Involuntary psychiatric commitment: Joyce Brown -- Ethical issues and genetic diseases: the challenge of diabetes -- Preventing the global spread of AIDS -- Ethics & financing medicine: Americare.

ISBN:

0073535737 (alk. paper)
9780073535739 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)104845979

LCCN:

2007012849

Locations:

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

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)