The Blackwell guide to medical ethics
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
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Malden, MA
Blackwell Publishing Ltd
© 2007
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| Series: | Blackwell philosophy guides
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Table of Contents:
- 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.