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Bioethics : an introduction to the history, methods, and practice
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- Creator
- [edited by] Nancy S. Jecker, Albert R. Jonsen, Robert A. Pearlman
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Sudbury, Mass. : Jones and Bartlett Publishers, [1997]
- ©1997
- Physical Details
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- xii, 416 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780763702281, 0763702285
- OCLC
- ocm35650923
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Pt. I. The History of Bioethics. Introduction to the History of Bioethics / Albert R. Jonsen. The New Biology: What Price Relieving Man's Estate? / Leon R. Kass. The Heart Transplant: Ethical Dimensions / Kenneth Vaux. Who Shall Live When Not All Can Live? / James F. Childress. Ethics and Clinical Research / Henry K. Beecher. Philosophical Reflections on Experimenting with Human Subjects / Hans Jonas. Realities of Patient Consent to Medical Research / John Fletcher. Moral and Ethical Dilemmas in the Special-Care Nursery / Raymond S. Duff and A. G. M. Campbell. To Save or Let Die: The Dilemma of Modern Medicine / Richard A. McCormick. Active and Passive Euthanasia / James Rachels. Prolonged Dying: Not Medically Indicated / Paul Ramsey. Bioethics as a Discipline / Daniel Callahan. Medical Ethics: Some Uses, Abuses, and Limitations / K. Danner Clouser. How Medicine Saved the Life of Ethics / Stephen Toulmin -- Pt. II. The Methods of Bioethics. Introduction to the Methods of Bioethics / Nancy S. Jecker. Equality and Its Implications / Peter Singer. Kantian Ethics / Fred Feldman. From Principles of Biomedical Ethics (Selection) / Tom L. Beauchamp and James F. Childress. A Critique of Principlism / K. Danner Clouser and Bernard Gert. Feminism and Moral Theory / Virginia Held. Casuistry and Clinical Ethics / Albert R. Jonsen. From Doctors' Stories (Selection) / Kathryn M. Hunter. Getting Down to Cases: The Revival of Casuistry in Bioethics / John Arras. Feminist and Medical Ethics: Two Different Approaches to Contextual Ethics / Susan Sherwin. Attitudes toward Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia among Physicians in Washington State / Jonathan S. Cohen, Stephan D. Fihn and Edward J. Boyko. Survival after Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation in the Hospital / Susanna E. Bedell, Thomas L. Delbanco and E. Francis Cook. Limitation of Medical Care: An Ethnographic Analysis / William Ventres, Mark Nichter and Richard Reed. Should Medical Encounters Be Studied Using Ethnographic Techniques? / Cynthia J. Stolman. Medical Morality Is Not Bioethics: Medical Ethics in China and the United States / Renee C. Fox and Judith P. Swazey. Yes, There Are African-American Perspectives on Bioethics / Annette Dula -- Pt. III. The Practice of Bioethics. Introduction to the Practice of Bioethics / Robert A. Pearlman. Hospital Ethics Committees: Is There a Role? / Robert M. Veatch. The Inner Workings of an Ethics Committee: Latest Battle over Jehovah's Witnesses / Ruth Macklin. Ethics Consultation: Skills, Roles, and Training / John La Puma and David L. Schiedermayer. Facilitating Medical Ethics Case Review: What Ethics Committees Can Learn from Mediation and Facilitation Techniques / Mary Beth West and Joan McIver Gibson. Behind Closed Doors: Promises and Pitfalls of Ethics Committees / Bernard Lo. Part 1340 - Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention and Treatment (Selection) / Office of Human Development Services and Health and Human Services. The Patient Self-Determination Act and the Future of Advance Directives / Peter J. Greco, Kevin A. Schulman and Risa LaVizzo-Mourey. Deciding to Forego Life-Sustaining Treatment (Selection) / President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research. Natural Death Act / The State of California. When Others Must Choose (Selection) / The New York State Task Force on Life and the Law. Ethical Issues Involved in the Growing AIDS Crisis / American Medical Association. Position of the American Academy of Neurology on Certain Aspects of the Care and Management of the Persistent Vegetative State Patient / Executive Board and American Academy of Neurology. Initiating and Withdrawing Life Support: Principles and Practice in Adult Medicine / John Ruark and Thomas Raffin / Stanford University Medical Center Committee on Ethics. Ethics Committees and Decisions to Limit Care: The Experience at the Massachusetts General Hospital / Troyen A. Brennan. Western Bioethics on the Navajo Reservation: Benefit or Harm? / Joseph A. Carrese and Lorna A. Rhodes. Gender, Race, and Class in the Delivery of Health Care / Susan Sherwin
Subjects
- Medical ethics.
- Bioethics.
- Ethics, Medical.
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- Bioethics.
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