The Blackwell guide to medical ethics

Authors:Rosamond Rhodes, Leslie Francis, Anita Silvers

Summary: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

Print Book, English, 2007

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Publisher:Blackwell Pub., Malden, MA, 2007

Series:

Blackwell philosophy guides, 21

Physical Description:xii, 435 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

ISBN:

9781405125833, 9781405125840, 1405125837, 1405125845

OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:71139431

Subjects:

44.62 general practice

Bioethical Issues legislation & jurisprudence

Patient Rights ethics

Public Policy

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Contents:

Notes on Contributors

vii

Introduction

(14)

Rosamond Rhodes

Leslie P. Francis

Anita Silvers

Part I Individual Decisions About Clinical Issues

Patient Decisions

(54)

Autonomy, the Good Life, and Controversial Choices

(21)

Julian Savulescu

Individual Responsibility and Reproduction

(14)

Rachel A. Ankeny

Patient and Family Decisions about Life-Extension and Death

(17)

Felicia Nimue Ackerman

Individual Decisions of Physicians and Other Health Care Professionals

(130)

The Professional Responsibilities of Medicine

(17)

Rosamond Rhodes

Truth Telling

(16)

Roger Higgs

Medical Confidentiality

104

(24)

Kenneth Kipnis

Patient Competence and Surrogate Decision-Making

128

(14)

Dan W. Brock

Ending Life

142

(20)

F.M. Kamm

Discrimination in Medical Practice: Justice and the Obligations of Health Care Providers to Disadvantaged Patients

162

(18)

Leslie P. Francis

Institutional Practices, Ethics, and the Physician

180

(19)

Mary V. Rorty

Ann E. Mills

Patricia H. Werhane

Part II Legislative and Judicial Decisions about Social Policy

Liberty

199

(104)

Reproductive Choice

201

(19)

Rebecca Bennett

John Harris

Public Policy and Ending Lives

220

(18)

Evert van Leeuwen

Gerrit Kimsma

Drug Legalization

238

(16)

Douglas N. Husak

Selling Organs, Gametes, and Surrogacy Services

254

(15)

Janet Radcliffe Richards

The Patient as Victim and Vector: The Challenge of Infectious Disease for Bioethics

269

(20)

Margaret P. Battin

Leslie P. Francis

Jay A. Jacobson

Charles B. Smith

Abuses of Science in Medical Ethics

289

(14)

Glenn McGee

Dyrleif Bjarnadottir

Justice

303

(122)

Allocation of Scarce Resources

305

(18)

Paul Menzel

Just Caring: The Challenges of Priority-Setting in Public Health

323

(18)

Leonard M. Fleck

Justice and the Financing of Health Care

341

(13)

Stephen R. Latham

Judgment and Justice: Evaluating Health Care for Chronically Ill and Disabled Patients

354

(19)

Anita Silvers

Justice in Research on Human Subjects

373

(20)

David R. Buchanan

Franklin G. Miller

Ethics of Disclosure Following a Medical Injury: Time for Reform?

393

(14)

Troyen Anthony Brennan

Pre-existing Conditions: Genetic Testing, Causation, and the Justice of Medical Insurance

407

(18)

Robert T. Pennock

Index

425

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