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100 1 _aPence, Gregory E.
245 1 0 _aClassic cases in medical ethics :
_baccounts of the cases and issues that define medical ethics /
_cGregory E. Pence.
246 1 4 _aMedical ethics
250 _a5th ed.
260 _aBoston :
_bMcGraw-Hill,
_cc2008.
300 _a1 v. (various pagings) ;
_c23 cm.
500 _aCover title: Medical ethics.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
505 0 _aRequests 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.
520 _aA 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.
521 2 _aAdult
521 2 _aAdult
_bFollett Library Resources
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650 0 _aPatients
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650 0 _aSocial Justice
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