TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pence,Gregory E.
TI  - Classic cases in medical ethics: accounts of the cases and issues that define medical ethics 
SN  - 0073535737 (pbk. : alk. paper)
AV  - R724 .P36 2008
U1  - 174.2 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Boston
PB  - McGraw-Hill
KW  - Bioethics
KW  - United States
KW  - Medical ethics
KW  - Case studies
KW  - History
KW  - Patients
KW  - Civil rights
KW  - Social Justice
KW  - Moral and ethical aspects
KW  - sears
KW  - Ethical aspects
KW  - 20th century
N1  - 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; Adult; Adult; Follett Library Resources
N2  - 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
ER  -