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