Classic cases in medical ethics : accounts of cases that have shaped medical ethics, with philosophical, legal, and historical backgrounds / Gregory E. Pence.
Publication details: Boston, Mass. : McGraw-Hill, 2004.Description: 1 v. (various pagings) ; 24 cmISBN:- 0072829354 (softcover : alk. paper)
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- R724 .P36 2004
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Ch. 1. Moral Reasoning and Ethical Theories in Medical Ethics. SECTION I: CLASSIC CASES ABOUT DEATH AND DYING : Ch. 2. Comas: Karen Quinlan and Nancy Cruzan -- Ch. 3. Requests to Die: Elizabeth Bouvia and Larry McAfee -- Ch. 4. Physician-Assisted Dying: Oregon's Legalization. SECTION II: CLASSIC CASES ABOUT THE BEGINNINGS OF HUMAN LIFE : Ch. 5. Abortion: The Kenneth Edelin Case -- Ch. 6. Assisted Reproduction: Louise Brown and Beyond -- Ch. 7. Battles over Stem Cells and Embryos -- Ch. 8. Reproductive Cloning -- Ch. 9. Letting Impaired Newborns Die: Baby Jane Doe. SECTION III: CLASSIC CASES ABOUT RESEARCH : Ch. 10. Animal Subjects: The Philadelphia Primate Study -- Ch. 11. Human Subjects: The Tuskegee Syphilis Study -- Ch. 12. Adult Heart Replacement: The First Heart Transplant and Artificial Heart -- Ch. 13. Allocation of Artificial and Transplantable Organs: The God Committee -- Ch. 14. Infants and Medical Research: Baby Fae and Baby Theresa. SECTION IV: CLASSIC CASES ABOUT INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS VERSUS THE PUBLIC GOOD : Ch. 15. Involuntary Psychiatric Commitment: Joyce Brown -- Ch. 16. Ethical Issues and Genetic Diseases: Nancy Wexler -- Ch. 17. AIDS: Preventing the Global Spread of HIV-Infection -- Ch. 18. Ethical Issues in Financing Medicine: Expanding Medicare?