The Blackwell guide to medical ethics /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Rhodes, Rosamond, Francis, Leslie, 1946-, Silvers, Anita
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Pub., 2007.
Series:Blackwell philosophy guides ; 21.
Subjects:
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.