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The Blackwell guide to medical ethics / edited by Rosamond Rhodes, Leslie P. Francis, and Anita Silvers.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Blackwell philosophy guides ; 21.Publisher: Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2007Description: xii, 435 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1405125837
  • 9781405125833
  • 1405125845
  • 9781405125840
Other title:
  • Guide to medical ethics
  • Medical ethics [Parallel title]
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 174.2 22
LOC classification:
  • R724 .B515 2007
Contents:
1. Autonomy, the good life, and controversial choices / Julian Savulescu -- 2. Individual responsibility and reproduction / Rachel A. Ankeny -- 3. Patient and family decisions about life-extension and death / Felicia Nimue Ackerman -- 4. The professional responsibilities of medicine / Rosamond Rhodes -- 5. Truth telling / Roger Higgs -- 6. Medical confidentiality / Kenneth Kipnis -- 7. Patient competence and surrogate decision-making / Dan W. Brock -- 8. Ending life / F. M. Kamm -- 9. Discrimination in medical practice : justice and the obligations of health care providers to disadvantaged patients / Leslie P. Francis -- 10. Institutional practices, ethics, and the physician / Mary V. Rorty, Ann E. Mills and Patricia H. Werhane -- 11. Reproductive choice / Rebecca Bennett and John Harris -- 12. Public policy and ending lives / Evert van Leeuwen and Gerrit Kimsma -- 13. Drug legalization / Douglas N. Husak -- 14. Selling organs, gametes, and surrogacy services / Janet Radcliffe Richards -- 15. The patient as victim and vector : the challenge of infectious disease for bioethics / Margaret P. Battin, Leslie P. Francis, Jay A. Jacobson and Charles B. Smith -- 16. Abuses of science in medical ethics / Glenn McGee and Dyrleif Bjarnadottir -- 17. Allocation of scarce resources / Paul Menzel -- 18. Just caring : the challenges of priority-setting in public health / Leonard M. Fleck -- 19. Justice and the financing of health care / Stephen R. Latham -- 20. Judgment and justice : evaluating health care for chronically ill and disabled patients / Anita Silvers -- 21. Justice in research on human subjects / David R. Buchanan and Franklin G. Miller -- 22. Ethics of disclosure following a medical injury : time for reform? / Troyen Anthony Brennan -- 23. Pre-existing conditions : genetic testing, causation, and the justice of medical insurance / Robert T. Pennock.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Autonomy, the good life, and controversial choices / Julian Savulescu -- 2. Individual responsibility and reproduction / Rachel A. Ankeny -- 3. Patient and family decisions about life-extension and death / Felicia Nimue Ackerman -- 4. The professional responsibilities of medicine / Rosamond Rhodes -- 5. Truth telling / Roger Higgs -- 6. Medical confidentiality / Kenneth Kipnis -- 7. Patient competence and surrogate decision-making / Dan W. Brock -- 8. Ending life / F. M. Kamm -- 9. Discrimination in medical practice : justice and the obligations of health care providers to disadvantaged patients / Leslie P. Francis -- 10. Institutional practices, ethics, and the physician / Mary V. Rorty, Ann E. Mills and Patricia H. Werhane -- 11. Reproductive choice / Rebecca Bennett and John Harris -- 12. Public policy and ending lives / Evert van Leeuwen and Gerrit Kimsma -- 13. Drug legalization / Douglas N. Husak -- 14. Selling organs, gametes, and surrogacy services / Janet Radcliffe Richards -- 15. The patient as victim and vector : the challenge of infectious disease for bioethics / Margaret P. Battin, Leslie P. Francis, Jay A. Jacobson and Charles B. Smith -- 16. Abuses of science in medical ethics / Glenn McGee and Dyrleif Bjarnadottir -- 17. Allocation of scarce resources / Paul Menzel -- 18. Just caring : the challenges of priority-setting in public health / Leonard M. Fleck -- 19. Justice and the financing of health care / Stephen R. Latham -- 20. Judgment and justice : evaluating health care for chronically ill and disabled patients / Anita Silvers -- 21. Justice in research on human subjects / David R. Buchanan and Franklin G. Miller -- 22. Ethics of disclosure following a medical injury : time for reform? / Troyen Anthony Brennan -- 23. Pre-existing conditions : genetic testing, causation, and the justice of medical insurance / Robert T. Pennock.

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