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• 1. Justice
• 2. Ethical Systems
• 3. Reflective Equilibrium from the Perspective of Logic and Statistics
• 4. The Patient as Parenthetical
• 5. A Workable Framework
• 6. Justice
• 7. Ethical Systems
• 8. Reflective Equilibrium from the Perspective of Logic and Statistics
• 9. The Patient as Parenthetical
• 10. A Workable Framework.
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Ethics of Everyday Medicine: Explorations of Justice examines and analyses the relatively unexplored domain of ethics involved in the everyday practice of medicine. From the author's clinical experience, virtually every decision made in the day-to-day practice of medicine is fundamentally an ethical question, as virtually every decision hinge on some value judgment that goes beyond the medical facts of the matter. The first part of the book is devoted to medical decision cases in several areas of medicine. These cases highlight elements of the current healthcare ecosystem, involving players other than the physician and patient. Insurers (private, commercial, and governmental), administrators, and regulators' perspectives are surfaced in point of care case analysis. Part two contributes to the development of actionable tools to develop better ethical systems for the everyday practice of medicine by providing a critical analysis of Reflective Equilibrium and ethical induction from the perspective of logic and statistics. The chapter on Justice discusses the neurophysiological representations of just and unjust behaviours. The chapter on Ethical Theories follows, describing the epistemic conundrum, principlism, reproducibility, abstraction, chaos and complexity. The following chapter approaches ethical decisions from the logic and statistic perspectives. The following chapter, The Patient as Parenthetical, the author discusses patient-centric ethics, and the rise of business- and government-cetric ethics. The final chapter, A Framework to Frame the Questions for Explore Further, proposes a working framework to deal with current ethical issues. Ethics of everyday Medicine: Explorations of Justice acknowledges that there are no answers yet to the ethical dilemmas that confront the everyday practice of medicine, but proposes a framework for deeper analysis and action. This reading would be useful to all healthcare professionals. Regulators and policy makers could also benefit from understanding how the complex healthcare environment influences medical decisions at point of care.
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• Preface.-Introduction to Biomedical Ethics.-Autonomy and the Principles of Medical Practice.-Informed Consent.-Conflict of Interest.-Ethics of Surgical Innovation for Congenital Heart Diseases.-Ethical Considerations in Patients with Extracardiac or Genetic Anomalies.-Medical Futility:When Further Therapy is Hopeless.-Ethical Issues Surrounding the use of Post Cardiotomy ECMO.-Rare Diagnoses and Allocation of Precious Resources.-Abortion Rights.-Fetal Cardiac Interventions.-Ethical Considerations in the Transcatheter Management of Congenital Heart Disease.-Informed Consent in Fetal Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome.-Role of Ethics Consultation in Pediatric Congenital Heart Disease.-Ethics, Justice, and the Province of American Medicine: A Discussion of the Politicalization of the Duty to Care for Pediatric Heart Transplant Patients who are in the Country Illegally.-The unintended consequences of public reporting.-Ethical Considerations in Pediatric Heart Transplantation.-Between Death and Donation: Ethical Considerations in Pediatric Heart Transplantation.-Active and Passive Euthanasia (killing and letting die) in the Context of Severe Congenital Heart Disease.-Ethical and Legal Controversies Concerning Consolidation of Congenital Heart Programs in The United States of America.
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This title reviews the bioethical issues in congenital heart disease and other difficult pediatric cardiology and cardiac surgical situations. It provides considered opinions and recommendations as to the preferred actions to take in these cases, stressing the importance of making informed decisions that are bioethically sound and doing so using considered reasoning of all the related sensitive issues. Bioethical Controversies in Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery provides detailed recommendations on potential solutions to make bioethical decisions in difficult clinical scenarios. There is particular emphasis on controversies involving surgery for hypoplastic left heart syndrome, futility, informed consent, autonomy, genomics, and beneficence. It is intended for use by a wide range of practitioners, including congenital heart surgeons, pediatric cardiologists, pediatric intensivists, nurse practitioners, physician's assistants, and clinical ethicists. .
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• Truthfulness, trust and good communication. Consent. Confidentiality. Children, medicine and law. Mental health. Life and death, dying and killing. Human reproduction. The GMC, complaints and wistleblowing. Medical research. Rationing resources. Health care rights. The new genetics.
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This book is to help you understand the main ethical and legal details you need to know in order to practice medicine safely and well. Medical ethics is an inherently fascinating subject, and throws up new issues every day. Good ethical thinking requires practice and application and there are essentials that are easy to grasp and learn quickly - this book will show you how. It contains short summaries, with examples, and guidance on your legal position, of a series of core topics of medical ethics and law. Its aim is to give you some guides to effective, safe and good clinical practice.
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• Notes on Contributors x Acknowledgments xiv General Introduction 1 References 8
• Part 1 Are There Universal Ethical Principles That ShouldGovern the Conduct of Medicine and Research Worldwide? 13 Introduction 13 References 15 1 There Are Universal Ethical Principles That Should Govern theConduct of Medicine and Research Worldwide 17 Daryl Pullman 2 There Are No Universal Ethical Principles That Should Governthe Conduct of Medicine and Research Worldwide 27 Kevin S. Decker Reply to Decker 36 Reply to Pullman 39
• Part 2 Is It Morally Acceptable to Buy and Sell Organs forHuman Transplantation? 43 Introduction 43 References 45 3 It Is Morally Acceptable to Buy and Sell Organs for HumanTransplantation: Moral Puzzles and Policy Failures 47 Mark J. Cherry 4 It Is Not Morally Acceptable to Buy and Sell Organs for HumanTransplantation: A Very Poor Solution to a Very Pressing Problem59 Arthur L. Caplan Reply to Caplan 68 Reply to Cherry 70
• Part 3 Were It Physically Safe, Would Human ReproductiveCloning Be Acceptable? 73 Introduction 73 References 76 5 Were It Physically Safe, Human Reproductive Cloning Would BeAcceptable 79 Katrien Devolder 6 Were It Physically Safe, Human Reproductive Cloning Would NotBe Acceptable 89 Stephen E. Levick Reply to Levick 98 Reply to Devolder 101
• Part 4 Is the Deliberately Induced Abortion of a HumanPregnancy Ethically Justifiable? 105 Introduction 105 References 109 7 The Deliberately Induced Abortion of a Human Pregnancy IsEthically Justifiable 111 Jeffrey Reiman 8 The Deliberately Induced Abortion of a Human Pregnancy Is NotEthically Justifiable 120 Don Marquis Reply to Marquis 129 Reply to Reiman 132
• Part 5 Is It Ethical to Patent or Copyright Genes, Embryos, or Their Parts? 137 Introduction 137 References 141 9 It Is Ethical to Patent or Copyright Genes, Embryos, or TheirParts 143 Lawrence M. Sung 10 It Is Not Ethical to Patent or Copyright Genes, Embryos, orTheir Parts 152 David Koepsell Reply to Koepsell 162 Reply to Sung 164
• Part 6 Should a Child Have the Right to Refuse MedicalTreatment to Which the Child s Parents or Guardians HaveConsented? 167 Introduction 167 References 171 11 The Child Should Have the Right to Refuse Medical Treatmentto Which the Child s Parents or Guardians Have Consented173 William J. Winslade 12 The Child Should Not Have the Right to Refuse MedicalTreatment to Which the Child s Parents or Guardians HaveConsented 181 Catherine M. Brooks Reply to Brooks 192 Reply to Winslade 194
• Part 7 Is Physician-Assisted Suicide Ever Ethical?197 Introduction 197 References 201 13 Physician-Assisted Suicide Is Ethical 203 John Lachs 14 Physician-Assisted Suicide Is Not Ethical 213 Patrick Lee Reply to Lee 222 Reply to Lachs 225
• Part 8 Should Stem-Cell Research Utilizing Embryonic TissueBe Conducted? 229 Introduction 229 References 233 15 Stem-Cell Research Utilizing Embryonic Tissue Should BeConducted 237 Jane Maienschein 16 Stem-Cell Research Utilizing Embryonic Tissue Should Not BeConducted 248 Bertha Alvarez Manninen Joint Reply 259
• Part 9 Should We Prohibit the Use of Chimpanzees and OtherGreat Apes in Biomedical Research? 261 Introduction 261 References 268 17 We Should Prohibit the Use of Chimpanzees and Other GreatApes in Biomedical Research 271 Jean Kazez 18 We Should Not Prohibit the Use of Chimpanzees and Other GreatApes in Biomedical Research 281 Carl Cohen Reply to Cohen 291 Reply to Kazez 294
• Part 10 Should the United States of America Adopt UniversalHealthcare? 297 Introduction 297 References 301 19 The United States of America Should Adopt UniversalHealthcare 303 John Geyman 20 The United States of America Should Not Adopt UniversalHealthcare: Let s Try Freedom Instead 314 Glen Whitman Reply to Whitman 327 Reply to Geyman 331
• Part 11 Is There a Legitimate Place for Human GeneticEnhancement? 335 Introduction 335 References 339 21 There Is a Legitimate Place for Human Genetic Enhancement343 Nicholas Agar 22 There Is No Legitimate Place for Human Genetic Enhancement:The Slippery Slope to Genocide 353 Edwin Black Reply to Black 363 Reply to Agar 366
• Part 12 Can There Be Agreement as to What Constitutes HumanDeath? 369 Introduction 369 References 374 23 There Can Be Agreement as to What Constitutes Human Death377 James L. Bernat 24 There Cannot Be Agreement as to What Constitutes Human Death:Against Definitions, Necessary and Sufficient Conditions, andDeterminate Boundaries 388 Winston Chiong Reply to Chiong 397 Reply to Bernat 399
• Part 13 Is There Ever a Circumstance in Which a Doctor MayWithhold Information? 401 Introduction 401 References 407 25 There Are Circumstances in Which a Doctor May WithholdInformation 409 Tom L. Beauchamp 26 There Are No Circumstances in Which a Doctor May WithholdInformation 418 Jason T. Eberl Reply to Eberl 428 Reply to Beauchamp 431
• Part 14 Should In Vitro Fertilization Be an Option for aWoman? 435 Introduction 435 References 439 27 In Vitro Fertilization Should Be an Option for a Woman441 Laura Purdy 28 In Vitro Fertilization Should Not Be an Option for a Woman451 Christopher Tollefsen Reply to Tollefsen 460 Reply to Purdy 462
• Part 15 Are International Clinical Trials Exploitative?465 Introduction 465 References 470 29 Clinical Trials Are Inherently Exploitative: The LikelihoodThat They Are Is High 473 Jamie Carlin Watson 30 International Clinical Trials Are Not Inherently Exploitative485 Richard J. Arneson Reply to Arneson 495 Reply to Watson 498 Index 501.
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Contemporary Debates in Bioethics features a timelycollection of highly readable, debate-style arguments contributedby many of today s top bioethics scholars, focusing on corebioethical concerns of the twenty-first century. * Written in an engaging, debate-style format for accessibilityto non-specialists * Features general introductions to each topic that precedescholarly debates * Presents the latest, cutting-edge thoughts on relevantbioethics ideas, arguments, and debates.
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• Introduction
• Chapter 1: The Indispensability of Principles
• Chapter 2: The Limits of Principles
• Chapter 3: Putting Principles in Context: Balancing, Specification and Reflective Equilibrium
• Chapter 4: Casuistry: Ruled by Cases
• Chapter 5: Narrative Ethics: The Uses of Stories
• Chapter 6: Feminism, Context and Care
• Chapter 7: Virtue Theory
• Chapter 8: Fitting Methods to Cases.
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Over the last several decades, bioethicists have championed a bewildering variety of methods for understanding and resolving difficult ethical problems in medicine, including: principlism, wide reflective equilibrium, casuistry, feminism, virtue theory, narrative, and others. Much of this advocacy overlooks the limitations of the favored method, and also neglects the strengths found in alternative approaches. Tom Tomlinson systematically uncovers and evaluates both the strengths and limits of a variety of ethical tools, and in so doing develops a comprehensive appreciation of the roles that various methods can play in deepening our understanding of ethical problems in medicine, and in supporting well-grounded judgments about what to do. He critically evaluates each method to identify both limits and advantages, which he then illustrates through discussion of specific cases and controversies. Tomlinson not only demonstrates that there is no single method adequate to the task, but tries to develop an informed eclecticism that knows how to pick the right tool for the right job. All those engaged in thinking about bioethical theories will find Tomlinson's work important reading.
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Bioethics has become increasingly politicized over the past decade. Conservative voices dominated the debate at first, but the recent resurgence of progressivism and the application of its fundamental values (social justice, critical optimism, practical problem solving) to bioethical issues have helped correct this ideological imbalance. Progress in Bioethics is the first book to debate the meaning of progressive bioethics and to offer perspectives on the topic both from bioethicists who consider themselves progressive and from bioethicists who do not. It aims to begin a dialogue and to provide a foothold for readers interested in understanding the field. The chapter authors--leading scholars in the field--discuss the meaning of progressive bioethics, the rise of conservative bioethics, the progressive stance toward biotechnology, the interplay of progressive bioethics and religion, and progressive approaches to such specific policy issues as bioethics commissions, stem cell research, and health-care reform. The arrival of a new administration in 2009--one that is open to progressive ideas and rejects ideological interventions in science--makes this book and its new approach to bioethics relevant and timely. Contributors: Sam Berger, Daniel Callahan, Arthur L. Caplan, R. Alta Charo, Marcy Darnovsky, John H. Evans, Kathryn Hinsch, James Hughes, Richard Lempert, William F. May, Eric M. Meslin, Jonathan D. Moreno, Michael Rugnetta, Paul Root Wolpe, Laurie Zoloth Basic Bioethics series.
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• Notes on Contributors. Introduction: Rosamond Rhodes (Mount Sinai School of Medicine), Leslie P. Francis (University of Utah) and Anita Silvers (San Francisco State University). Part I: Individual Decisions About Clinical Issues. I.1: Patient Decisions.
• 1. Autonomy, the Good Life and Controversial Choices: Julian Savulescu (University of Oxford).
• 2. Individual Responsibility and Reproduction: Rachel A. Ankeny (University of Sydney).
• 3. Patient and Family Decisions about Life-Extension and Death: Felicia Nimue Ackerman (Brown University). I.2: Individual Decisions of Physicians and Other Health Care Professionals.
• 4. The Professional Responsibilities of Medicine: Rosamond Rhodes (Mount Sinai School of Medicine).
• 5. Truth telling: Roger Higgs (Emeritus, King's College, London).
• 6. Medical Confidentiality: Kenneth Kipnis (University of Hawaii at Manoa).
• 7. Patient Competence and Surrogate Decision-Making: Dan W. Brock (Harvard Medical School).
• 8. Ending Life: F.M. Kamm (Harvard University).
• 9. Discrimination in Medical Practice: Justice and the Obligations of Health Care Providers to Disadvantaged Patients: Leslie P. Francis (University of Utah).
• 10. Institutional Practices, Ethics, and the Physician: Mary V. Rorty (Stanford University), Ann E. Mills (University of Virginia), and Patricia H. Werhane (DePaul University). Part II: Legislative and Judicial Decisions About Social Policy. II.2: Liberty.
• 11. Reproductive Choice: Rebecca Bennett (University of Manchester) and John Harris (University of Manchester).
• 12. Public Policy and Ending Lives: Evert van Leeuwen (Vrije Universiteit Medisch Centrum), and Gerrit Kimsma (Vrije Universiteit Medisch Centrum).
• 13. Drug Legalization: Douglas N. Husak (Rutgers University).
• 14. Selling Organs, Gametes, and Surrogacy Services: Janet Radcliffe Richards (University College, London).
• 15. The Patient as Victim and Vector: The Challenge of Infectious Disease for Bioethics: Margaret P. Battin (University of Utah), Leslie P. Francis (University of Utah), Jay A. Jacobson (University of Utah), Charles B. Smith (Emeritus, University of Utah).
• 16. Uses of Science in Medical Ethics: Glenn McGee (Albany Medical College) and Dyrleif Bjarnadottir. 11.2: Justice.
• 17. Allocation of Scarce Resources: Paul Menzel (Pacific Lutheran University).
• 18. Just Caring: The Challenges of Priority-Setting in Public Health: Leonard M. Fleck (Michigan State University).
• 19. Justice and the Financing of Health Care: Stephen R. Latham (Quinnipiac University).
• 20. Judgment and Justice: Evaluating Health Care for Chronically Ill and Disabled Patients: Anita Silvers (San Francisco State University).
• 21. Justice in Research on Human Subjects: David R. Buchanan (National Cancer Institute, Bethesda), and Franklin G. Miller (National Institutes of Health, Bethesda).
• 22. Ethics of Disclosure Following a Medical Injury: Time for Reform?: Troyen Anthony Brennan (Emeritus, Harvard Medical School).
• 23. Pre-existing Conditions: Genetic Testing, Causation and the Justice of Medical Insurance: Robert T. Pennock (Michigan State University). Index.
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The Blackwell Guide to Medical Ethics is a guide to the complex literature written on the increasingly dense topic of ethics in relation to the new technologies of medicine. * Examines the key ethical issues and debates which have resulted from the rapid advances in biomedical technology * Brings together the leading scholars from a wide range of disciplines, including philosophy, medicine, theology and law, to discuss these issues * Tackles such topics as ending life, patient choice, selling body parts, resourcing and confidentiality * Organized with a coherent structure that differentiates between the decisions of individuals and those of social policy.
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• 1. Why is medical ethics so exciting?
• 2. Euthanasia
• 3. Allocating heath resources
• 4. People who don't exist: at least not yet
• 5. A tool-box for reasoning
• 6. The inconsistencies of madness
• 7. How modern genetics is testing traditional confidentiality
• 8. Medical research in poor countries
• 9. Ordinary medical practice.
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Issues in medical ethics are rarely out of the media and it is an area of ethics that has particular interest for the general public as well as the medical practitioner. This short and accessible introduction provides an invaluable tool with which to think about the ethical values that lie at the heart of medicine. Tony Hope deals with the thorny moral questions such as euthanasia and the morality of killing, and also explores political questions such as: how should health care resources be distributed fairly? Each chapter in this book considers a different issue: genetics, modern reproductive technologies, resource allocation, mental health, medical research, and discusses controversial questions such as: * Who should have access to reproductive technology? Who should pay? * Is it right to fund expensive drug treatment for individuals? * Should active euthanasia be legalized? * Should treatment for mental illness be imposed on patients without their consent? * Who should have access to information from genetic testing? * Should we require consent for the use of dead bodies or organs in medical research? ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
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• Dedication. Ethical Issues in Health Care on the Frontiers of the Twenty First Century-- S. Wear, et al. Preface: The Continued Role of Biomedical Ethics in the Next Millenium-- J. Naughton. Keynote Address: Bioethics at the End of the Millenium: Fashioning Health Care Policy in the Absence of a Moral Consensus-- H.T. Engelhardt. Part I: The Dilemma of Funding Health Care. The Dilemma of Funding Health Care-- S. Wear. Toward Multiple Standards of Health Care Delivery: Takin Moral and Economic Diversity Seriously-- H.T. Engelhardt, Jr. A Preventive Ethics Approach to the Managed Practice of Medicine: Putting the History of Medical Ethics to Work-- L.B. McCullough. Saving Lives, Saving Money: Shepherding the Role of Technology-- E.H. Morreim. Part II: The Human Genome Project. The Human Genome, Difference, and Disease: Nature, Culture, and New Narratives for Medicine's Future-- J.J. Bono. Concepts of Disease After the Human Genome Project-- E. Juengst. From Promises to Progress to Portents of Peril: Public Responses to Genetic Engineering-- D. Nelkin. PKU and Procreative Liberty: Historical and Ethical Considerations-- D.B. Paul. Everybody's Got Something-- J.D. Moreno. Part III: The Physician/Patient Relationship. The Physician/Patient Relationship-- G. Logue. A Medicine of Neighbors-- K. Montgomery. Trust, Institutions, and the Physician-Patient Relationship: Implications for Continuity of Care-- J.R. Rosenbaum. Can Relationships Heal - At a Reasonable Cost? H. Brody. Values and the Physician-Patient Relationship-- S. Devito. General Bibliography-- A. McEvoy. Notes on Contributors. Index.
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of UB's medical school, that UB developed its School of Arts and Sciences, and thus, assumed its place among the other institutions of higher education. Had Fillmore lived throughout UB's first seventy years, he would probably have been elated by the success of his university, and he should have been satisfied and pleased that UB remained intrinsically bonded to its community while at the same time engrafting the values and standards important to higher education's mission in the region. UB and its medical school have undergone many challenging transitions since 1846. Included among them were: (1) the completion of an academic campus in the far northeast comer of the City of Buffalo while leaving its medical, dental and law schools firmly situated in the core of downtown Buffalo; (2) the eventual relocation, after the second world war, of the law school to the newer campus in Amherst, and the medical and dental school to the original academic campus: and (3) the merger with the State University of New York System in 1962. Despite these significant transitions, any one of which could have changed the intrinsic integrity of UB and disrupted the bonding between community and university, that did not happen. To this day, the ties between community and academe persist. Fillmore and White should celebrate their success and important contribution to Buffalo and Western New York.
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A big textbook and reference for graduate or undergraduate nursing or medical students, and practitioners with or without any training in ethics. Munson (Philosophy of science and medicine, U. of Missouri-St. Louis) combines text, explanations of the social context, case studies, readings, and deci.
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• One. Approaches to personhood
• Two. Distinctive features of "person" and quality of clinical care
• Three. A theoretical framework for interpreting data
• Four. Implications for clinical practice and public policy.

• Introduction Part I. Research, Experimentation and Innovation
• 1. And Baby Makes Moral Muddles
• 2. The Intrusion of Evil: The Use of Data from Unethical Medical Experiments
• 3. Have a Heart? The Ethical Lessons of the Development of the Total Artificial Heart
• 4. "What A Long, Strange Trip It's Been": The Debate Over the Use of Fetal Tissue for Transplantation Research Part II. Starting and Stopping Medical Treatment for the Very Young and Very Old
• 5. Hard Cases Make Bad Law: The Legacy of the Baby Doe Controversy
• 6. Analogies to the Holocaust and Contemporary Bioethical Disputes About Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia
• 7. Will Dr. Kevorkian Kill Hospice?
• 8. Odds and Ends Part III. Transplantation
• 9. No Sale: Markets, Organs, and Tissues
• 10. Is the Use of Animal Organs for Transplants Immoral?
• 11. Am I My Brother's Keeper? Ethics and the Use of Living Donors Part IV. Health Policy
• 12. Dead as a Doornail
• 13. Sinners, Saints, and Access to Health Care
• 14. The Ethics of Gatekeepers Part V. What Is Your Doctor Trying to Do to You?
• 15. Who Says YouOre Sick?
• 16. Curing What Ails the Medical Model
• 17. If Gene Therapy Is the Cure, WhatOs the Disease?
• 18. WhatOs Wrong with Eugenics? References Index 'Contents: Introduction Part IV. Health Policy Part I. Research, Experimentation and Innovation
• 12. Dead as a Doornail
• 1. And Baby MakesNMoral Muddles
• 13. Sinners, Saints, and Access to Health Care
• 2. The Intrusion of Evil: The Use of Data from Unethical Medical Experiments
• 14. The Ethics of Gatekeepers
• 3. Have a Heart? The Ethical Lessons of the Development of the Total Artificial Heart
• 4. OWhat A Long, Strange Trip ItOs BeenO: The Debate over the Use of Fetal Tissue Part V. What Is Your Doctor Trying to Do to You? for Transplantation Research
• 15. Who Says You're Sick?
• 16. Curing What Ails the Medical Model Part II. Starting and Stopping Medical Treatment for the Very Young and Very Old
• 17. If Gene Therapy Is the Cure, What's the Disease?
• 5. Hard Cases Make Bad Law: The Legacy of the Baby Doe Controversy18. WhatOs Wrong with Eugenics?
• 6. Analogies to the Holocaust and Contemporary Bioethical Disputes References about Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia Index
• 7. Will Dr. Kevorkian Kill Hospice?
• 8. Odds and Ends Part III. Transplantation
• 9. No Sale: Markets, Organs, and Tissues
• 10. Is the Use of Animal Organs for Transplants Immoral?
• 11. Am I My Brother's Keeper? Ethics and the Use of Living Donors.
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In this impassioned book, Arthur L. Caplan, one of our foremost writers on medical ethics, calls for an end to cynicism and mistrust in our approach to resolving health care issues. We have lost faith in our ability to see others as our brothers, Caplan writes. Doctors have become enemies, insurers adversaries, medical companies exploiters. Our demand for autonomy, says Caplan, has blinded us to the needs of others and the welfare of society as a whole. In this atmosphere of distrust, reasoned discussion of difficult ethical issues does not flourish, and all too often the courts are left to try to resolve matters that are beyond the reach of law.For Caplan, what has been missing from the public debate of these issues is a perspective grounded in beneficence, compassion, and trust. In this book, he brings this vision to discussions of some of the most pressing issues in medical ethics today including, doctor-assisted suicide, gene therapy, fetal research, new ways of making babies, and access to health care. His essays are crisp, thought-provoking, and certain to help foster better understanding of these issues and the impact they have on our lives. They call for renewed public engagement with bioethical questions. When it comes to deciding matters of how we live and we die, says Caplan, it is time to put aside self-interest and moral cynicism and to see possibility and well as the virtue of being guided by a determination to help one another carry the burdens of illness, disability, and dying.
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