Life and death : philosophical essays in biomedical ethics /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Brock, Dan W.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1993.
Series:	Cambridge studies in philosophy and public policy.
Subjects:	Medical ethics. Bioethics > collected works. Ethics, Medical > collected works. Physician-Patient Relations > collected works.

Table of Contents:

Informed consent
The ideal of shared decision making between physicians and patients
When competent patients make irrational choices / coauthored by Steven A. Wartman
Moral rights and permissible killing
Taking human life
Death and dying
Forgoing life-sustaining food and water : is it killing?
Voluntary active euthanasia
The value of prolonging human life
Quality of life measures in health care and medical ethics
The problem of low benefit/high cost health care
Justice and the severely demented elderly
Justice, health care, and the elderly
Truth or consequences : the role of philosophers in policy-making.