| Description |
xii, 435 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Series |
Blackwell philosophy guides ; 21 |
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Blackwell philosophy guides ; 21.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
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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 ... [et al.] -- 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. |
| Subject |
Medical ethics.
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Ethics, Medical.
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Bioethical Issues -- legislation & jurisprudence.
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Patient Rights -- ethics.
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Public Policy.
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| Added Author |
Rhodes, Rosamond.
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Francis, Leslie, 1946-
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Silvers, Anita.
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| Added Title |
Guide to medical ethics |
| ISBN |
9781405125833 hardback alkaline paper |
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1405125837 hardback alkaline paper |
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9781405125840 paperback alkaline paper |
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1405125845 paperback alkaline paper |
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