Biomedical ethics : a multidisciplinary approach to moral issues in medicine and biology

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pt. 1. The nature of biomedical ethics

Introduction : the nature of biomedical ethics / David Steinberg

Bioethics : then and now / Allan M. Brandt

Bioethics : then and now / Albert R. Jonsen

The nature of morality / Jerome Kagan

The nature of morality : the category of bad acts / Richard A. Shweder

The biological basis of morality / David Sloan Wilson

The amoral roots of morality / David Haig

Religion and the public discourse of bioethics / Laurie Zoloth

Religion and bioethics / Daniel Callahan

Feminist approaches to bioethics / Rosemarie Tong

Feminist approaches to bioethics / Gilbert Meilaender

Bioethics in culturally diverse societies / Leigh Turner

Bioethics in culturally diverse societies / Bernard Gert. pt. 2. The power of language

Introduction : the power of language / David Steinberg

The total artificial heart : is paying for it immoral and stopping it murder? / Robert M. Veatch

The total artificial heart and the morality of killing / David Steinberg

Is this incest? / Arthur P. Wolf

Embryo adoption / Sarah-Vaughan Brakman

The politics of embryo transfer / Mary Anderlik Majumder

Defending challenges to the concept of "brain death" / James L. Bernat

The concept of brain death / Michael A. Devita, Robert M. Arnold

An ethical framework for fetal research / Frank A. Chervenak, Laurence B. McCullough

Ethics and fetal research / Sidney Callahan

Transgenderism / Norman Spack

Beyond the medical model of gender dysphoria to morphological self-determination / James L. Hughes. pt. 3. Novel technologies

Introduction : novel technologies / David Steinberg

Cloning human beings / Dan W. Brock

Commentary on human cloning / Ruth Macklin

Cloning human beings / Daniel Callahan

Ethical issues of egg donation / Sharon Steinberg

Consent and uncertainty in egg donation / John A. Robertson

A lesbian couple who both want a biologic link to their offspring / Cynthia B. Cohen

Social and ethical challenges of prenatal diagnosis / Diane Beeson

Prenatal diagnosis / Peter Singer

Preimplantation genetic diagnosis : beginning a long conversation / Erik Parens, Thomas H. Murray

Heating up the conversation? / Paul Lauritzen

Genetic enhancement : a conceptual and ethical challenge for gene therapy regulation / Eric T. Juengst

Genetic enhancement / Glenn McGee

Genetically modified organisms / Daniel Magnus

Reason and repugnance / Daniel Callahan

Human gene banks / Garrath Williams

Are human gene banks worth it? / Jon F. Merz

Implantable brain chips : ethical and policy issues / Ellen M. McGee, Gerald Q. Maguire, Jr

Implantable brain chips, will they change who we are? / Daniel C. Dennett

The fight over how to allocate livers / Robert M. Veatch

Equity in liver allocation / Dan W. Brock. pt. 4. In the clinical arena

Introduction : in the clinical arena / David Steinberg

The value of an ethics consultation / David Ozar

Who does the ethics consultation serve? / Robert D. Orr

Should I lie to the insurance company? / James E. Sabin

Conflicting advance directives / David Goldblatt

What information should be disclosed to patients? / David Steinberg

The characteristics of information and avoiding surprises / Heather J. Gert

The man who wouldn't be shocked / John A. Balint

The case of the unresponsive hermit / Dan W. Brock

Live organ donation : determining the mental age of consent / Stuart J. Youngner

A time for reflection / Joseph J. Fins

Let my wife bleed to death / Paul S. Appelbaum

A teenager's refusal of assent for treatment / Nuala P. Kenny

Can an HIV-positive woman be forced to take medicine to protect her fetus? / Mandy Garber, Susan C. Hunt, Robert M. Arnold

Ethics for astronauts / Walter M. Robinson

Bioethics in space / Paul Root Wolpe

When the school bus driver is a drinker / Stuart J. Youngner

Should a clinical trial coordinator blow the whistle? / Howard Brody

Do physicians overtreat the seriously ill? / James L. Bernat

Reply : do physicians overtreat the seriously ill? / George J. Annas

Is terminal sedation really euthanasia? / Robert M. Taylor

My mother was a fighter / Gary S. Fischer, Robert M. Arnold

Rational suicide and the terminally ill / Susan D. Block

Rational but wrong / Hebert Hendin

Euthanasia for existential reasons / G.K. Kimsma

How much suffering is enough? / Timothy Quill

Managing cross-cultural conflicts in the doctor-patient relationship / Robert A. Pearlman

Should this 96-year-old woman be allowed to die? / Xiuyun Yin, Benfu Li, Yali Cong

I can't watch this baby die inside me / Frank A. Chervenak, Laurence B. McCullough

Family demand for futile treatment / Lawrence J. Schneiderman

Does anyone actually invoke their hospital futility policy? / Jeffrey Burns

Posthumous sperm retrieval / Alexander Morgan Capron

Must multiorgan donors be brain dead? / Robert D. Orr

Should a PVS patient be a live organ donor? / Lainie Friedman Ross. pt. 5. Ethics and the law

Introduction : ethics and the law / David Steinberg

Keeping genetic secrets / Leonard H. Glantz

Rights and responsibilities of gamete donors / Jane Greenlaw

Pregnant women and their fetuses : legal and ethical issues / Jane Greenlaw

The human chimera patent initiative / Stuart A. Newman

The Wendland case : on families and fantasies / Lawrence J. Nelson

The Texas "futility" procedure : no such thing as a fairy-tale ending / Anne L. Flamm

Legal pitfalls of cybermedicine / Nicolas Terry

Contracting for healthcare quality / Francis H. Miller

Who should capture the value of donated tissue? / Robert A. Katz

The controversy over recovered memories / Thomas Gutheil

Behavioral genetics : can we prevent crimes before they are committed? / Maxwell J. Mehlman

Traumatic brain injury and criminal responsibility / William J. Winslade

Maternal infanticide and the insanity defense / Margaret Spinelli

Informed consent for stem cell research using frozen embryos / Dena S. Davis

Financial interests and research protections : can they coexist? / Rebecca Dresser

Governmental bioethics commissions : the nature of the beast / Alexander Morgan Capron. pt. 6. Ethics and the humanities

Wrongful death : a memoir / Sandra M. Gilbert, David Steinberg

The doctor stories / Richard Selzer, Catherine Belling

"End of the line : depression and burnout in Ward No. 6" / Jack Coulehan

"Million dollar boo-boo" / David Goldblatt

The spirit catches you and you fall down / Anne Fadiman, David Steinberg

How we die / Sherwin B. Nuland, Andrew G. Villaneuva

The sweet hereafter / Russell Banks, Delese Wear

The diagnosis / Alan Lightman, James L. Bernat

An unquiet mind / Kay Redfield Jamison, David Steinberg

Darkness visible : a memoir of madness / William Styron, David Wykes

Conquering schizophrenia : a father, his son and a medical breakthrough / Peter Wyden, David Steinberg

Wit : a play / Margaret Edson, Lois LaCivita Nixon

Travels with the wolf : a story of chronic illness / Melissa Anne Goldstein, Jack Coulehan

Death of the good doctor : lessons from the heart of the AIDS epidemic / Kate Scannell, Felice Aull

His brother's keeper : a story from the edge of medicine / Jonathan Weiner, Richard M. Ratzan

The tyranny of the normal : an anthology / edited by Carol Donley, Sheryl Buckley, David Steinberg

Dirty pretty things : a narrative frame for black market organ sale / Steven Knight, directed by Stephen Fears, Lois LaCivita Nixon