The Blackwell guide to medical ethics /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Malden, Mass. :
Blackwell Pub.,
2007.
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| Series: | Blackwell philosophy guides ;
21. |
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Table of Contents:
- Autonomy, the good life, and controversial choices
- Individual responsibility and reproduction
- Patient and family decisions about life-extension and death
- The professional responsibilities of medicine
- Truth telling
- Medical confidentiality
- Patient competence and surrogate decision making
- Ending life
- Discrimination in medical practice : justice and the obligations of health care providers to disadvantaged patients
- Institutional practices, ethics, and the physician
- Reproductive choice
- Public policy and ending lives
- Drug legalization
- Selling organs, gametes, and surrogacy services
- The patient as victim and vector : the challenge of infectious disease for bioethics
- Abuses of science in medical ethics
- Allocation of scarce resources
- Just caring : the challenges of priority-setting in public health
- Justice and the financing of health care
- Judgment and justice : evaluating health care for chronically ill and disabled patients
- Justice in research on human subjects
- Ethics of disclosure following a medical injury : time for reform?
- Pre-existing conditions : genetic testing, causation and the justice of medical insurance.