Classic cases in medical ethics : accounts of the cases and issues that define medical ethics / Gregory E. Pence.
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TextPublication details: Boston : McGraw-Hill, c2008.Edition: 5th edDescription: 1 v. (various pagings) ; 23 cmISBN: - 0073535737 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780073535739 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- Medical ethics [Cover title]
- Bioethics -- United States
- Medical ethics -- Case studies
- Medical ethics -- United States -- History
- Patients -- United States -- Civil rights
- Social Justice -- United States -- Moral and ethical aspects
- Bioethics
- Medical ethics -- Case studies
- Medical ethics -- United States -- History
- Patients -- Civil rights
- Social Justice -- United States -- Ethical aspects
- United States -- History -- 20th century
- United States -- History -- 20th century
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- R724 .P36 2008
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Cover title: Medical ethics.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Requests to die : Elizabeth Bouvia and Larry McAfee -- Comas : Karen Quinlan, Nancy Cruzan, and Terri Schiavo -- Physician-assisted dying : Oregon's legalization -- Abortion : the trial of Kenneth Edelin -- Assisted reproduction : Louise Brown, the McCaughey septuplets, paid egg donors, and elderly parents -- Battles over human embryos and stem cells -- Reproductive cloning : should we close humans? -- Ethical theories and bioethics -- The ethics of treating impaired babies -- Medical research on animals -- Research on human subjects -- Surgeons' desire for fame : the ethics of heart, hand and face transplants and separating conjoined twins -- Allocation of artificial and transplantable organs : the God committee -- Using one baby to help another : babies Fae, Gabriel, and Theresa, plus separating conjoined twins -- Involuntary psychiatric commitment : the case of Joyce Brown -- Testing adults for genetic diseases : diabetes, breast cancer, and Huntington's Disease -- Preventing the global spread of AIDS -- Medicine and inequality.
A collection of case studies pertaining to various medical ethics topics, including assisted suicide, abortion, assisted reproduction, research on animals, transplants, involuntary psychiatric commitment, prevention of the spread of AIDS, and other issues regarding individual rights and the public good.
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