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1 online resource (xii, 435 pages) : illustrations
Employing crucial distinctions between the personal decisions of patients, the professional decisions of individual health care providers and political decisions about public policy. This book is an indispensable reference for anyone who wants to understand the field today and grapple with the challenges and controversies it presents.
The Blackwell Guide to Medical Ethics is a collection of new essays from acknowledged leaders in the field, designed to guide students through the complexities of the current state of ethics in medicine.
Autonomy, the good life and controversial choices / Julian Savulescu -- Individual responsibility and reproduction / Rachel A. Ankeny -- Patient and family decisions about life-extension and death / Felicia Nimue Ackerman -- The professional responsibilities of medicine / Rosamond Rhodes -- Truth telling / Roger Higgs -- Medical confidentiality / Kenneth Kipnis -- Patient competence and surrogate decision making / Dan Brock -- Ending life / Frances Myrna Kamm -- Discrimination in medical practice : justice and the obligations of health care providers to disadvantaged patients / Leslie P. Francis -- Institutional practices, ethics, and the physician / Mary V. Rorty, Ann E. Mills, and Patricia H. Werhane -- Reproductive choice / Rebecca Bennett and John Harris -- Public policy and ending lives / Evert van Leeuwen and Gerrit Kimsma -- Drug legalization / Douglas N. Husak.
Selling organs, gametes, and surrogacy services / Janet Radcliffe-Richards -- The patient as victim and vector : the challenge of infectious disease for bioethics / Margaret P. Battin [and others] -- Abuses of science in medical ethics / Glenn McGee and Dýrleif Bjarnadóttir -- Allocation of scarce resources / Paul Menzel -- Just caring : the challenges of priority-setting in public health / Leonard M. Fleck -- Justice and the financing of health care / Stephen R. Latham -- Judgment and justice : evaluating health care for chronically ill and disabled patients / Anita Silvers -- Justice in research on human subjects / David R. Buchanan and Franklin G. Miller -- Ethics of disclosure following a medical injury : time for reform? / Troyen Anthony Brennan -- Pre-existing conditions : genetic testing, causation and the justice of medical insurance / Robert T. Pennock.
edited by Rosamond Rhodes, Leslie P. Francis, and Anita Silvers.
Includes bibliographical references and index.