| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 241 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Medical ethics series
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Medical ethics series.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-235) and index. |
| Contents |
pt. 1. Research, experimentation, and innovation: And baby makes--moral muddles -- The intrusion of evil, the use of data from unethical medical experiments -- Have a heart? The ethical lessons of the development of the total artificial heart -- "What a long, strange trip it's been," the debate over the use of fetal tissue for transplantation research -- pt. 2. Starting and stopping medical treatment for the very young and very old: Hard cases make bad law, the legacy of the Baby Doe controversy -- Analogies to the Holocaust and contemporary bioethical disputes about assisted suicide and euthanasia --Will Dr. Kevorkian kill hospice? -- Odds and ends -- No sale: markets, organs, and tissues -- Is the use of animal organs for transplants immoral? -- Am I my brother's keeper? Ethics and the use of living donors -- pt. 4. Health policy: Dead as a doornail -- sinners, saints, and access to health care -- The ethics of gatekeepers -- pt. 5. What is your doctor trying to do to you? Who says you're sick? -- Curing what ails the medical model -- If gene therapyis the cure, what's the disease? -- What's wrong with eugenics? -- Do not copy without permission. |
| Summary |
The author discusses "some of the most pressing issues in medical ethics today--including doctor-assisted suicide, gene therapy, fetal research, access to health care," and cloning.--Jacket. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Medical ethics.
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Medical ethics. |
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Ethics, Medical. |
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Bioethics. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Caplan, Arthur L. Am I my brother's keeper?. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©1997 025333358X (DLC) 97019268 (OCoLC)36798307 |
| ISBN |
0585319197 (electronic book) |
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9780585319193 (electronic book) |
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