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Title:

Biomedical ethics and the law / edited by James M. Humber and Robert F. Almeder.

Edition:

2d ed.

Publisher:

Plenum Press,

Copyright Date:

c1979

Description:

xiv, 658 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Medical laws and legislation.
Medical ethics.
Ethics, Medical--Collected Works.
Jurisprudence--Collected Works.
Médecine--Droit.
Éthique médicale.

Other Authors:

Humber, James M.
Almeder, Robert F.

Notes:

Includes bibliographies and index.

Contents:

Part V. Dying -- Raymond Moody. Part I. Abortion -- The experience of dying / The wages of crying wolf : a comment on Roe v. Wade / John Hart Ely -- Maher v. Roe -- Abortion and the law / Baruch A. Brody -- A defense of abortion / Judith Jarvis Thomson -- Abortion : the avoidable moral dilemma / James M. Humber -- Part II. Mental illness -- Psychiatric intervention / Leon Eisenberg -- The myth of mental illness / Thomas Szasz -- Mental health and mental illness : some problems of definition and concept formation / Ruth Macklin -- Genetic aspects of schizophrenia / Arthur Falek -- Psychopathy and moral understanding / Antony Duff -- Psychiatrists and the adversary process / David L. Bazelon -- Part III. Human experimentation -- Ethics and clinical research / Henry K. Beecher -- Scientific investigations on man : a medical research worker's viewpoint / Michael B. Shimkin -- Philosophical reflections on experimenting with human subjects / Hans Jonas -- Informed (but uneducated) consent / Franz J. Ingelfinger -- Realities of patient consent to medical research / John Fletcher -- Ethical issues involved in experimentation on the nonviable human fetus / Richard Wasserstrom -- Proxy consent in the experimentation situation / Richard A. McCormick -- Part IV. Human genetics -- Ethical issues arising from the possible uses of genetic knowledge / Tracy M. Sonneborn -- Implications of prenatal diagnosis for the human right to live / Leon R. Kass -- Implications of prenatal diagnosis for the quality of, and right to, human life : society as a standard / Robert S. Morison -- Practical and ethical problems in human genetics / Kurt Hirschhorn -- Reproductive rights and genetic disease / Lawrence P. Ulrich -- On justifications for coercive genetic control / Thomas L. Beauchamp -- Legal rights and moral rights / Alexander M. Capron -- Privacy and genetic information / Herbert A. Lubs -- Recombinant DNA / John J. Madden -- The recombinant DNA debate / Stephen P. Stich -- The ethics of recombinant DNA research / James M. Humber -- Part V. Dying -- The problems in prolongation of life / Jonas Robitscher -- Active and passive euthanasia / James Rachels -- Choosing not to prolong life / Robert M. Veatch -- The allocation of exotic medical lifesaving therapy / Nicholas Rescher -- The role of moral considerations in the allocation of exotic medical lifesaving therapy / Robert F. Almeder -- A statutory definition of the standards for determining human death : an appraisal and a proposal / Alexander M. Capron and Leon R. Kass -- Existentialism and the fear of dying / Michael A. Slote -- The belief in a life after death / C.J. Ducasse -- The experience of dying / Raymond Moody.

ISBN:

9780306402425 (pbk.)
0306402424 (pbk.)
9780306402395
0306402394

LCCN:

79017758

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

N3AX771 -- Drake Law School Library (Des Moines)

N5UX522 -- University of Iowa Law Library (Iowa City)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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