Medical ethics, accounts of ground-breaking cases, Gregory E. Pence, University of Alabama at Birmingham
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Medical ethics, accounts of ground-breaking cases, Gregory E. Pence, University of Alabama at Birmingham
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eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Index
index present
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Grade 9 to 12
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Medical ethics
Nature of contents
bibliography
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862041549
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Gregory E. Pence, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Sub title
accounts of ground-breaking cases
Table Of Contents
1. Ethical reasoning, moral theories, principles, and bioethics -- 2. Requests to die: non-terminal patients -- 3. Requests to die: terminal patients -- 4. Comas: Karen Quinlan, Nancy Cruzan, and Terri Schiavo -- 5. Abortion: the trial of Kenneth Edelin -- 6. Assisted reproduction, multiple births, and elderly parents -- 7. Embryos, stem cells, and cloning -- 8. The ethics of treating impaired babies -- 9. Medical research on animals -- 10. Medical research on vulnerable human subjects -- 11. Surgeons' desire for fame: ethics of the first transplants -- 12. Just distribution of organs: God committee and personal responsibility -- 13. Using one baby for another: babies Fae, Gabriel, and Theresa and conjoined twins -- 14. Ethical issues of intersex and transgender persons -- 15. Involuntary psychiatric commitment: the case of Joyce Brown -- 16. Ethical issues in testing for genetic disease -- 17. Ethical issues in stopping the global spread of AIDS -- 18. Ethical issues with the Affordable Care Act -- 19. Ethical issues in medical enhancement
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- History, 20th Century -- United States
- Ethics, Medical + history -- United States
- Ethics, Clinical + history -- United States
- Ethics, Medical -- Case Reports
- Medical ethics -- Case studies
- Bioethical Issues -- United States
- Medical ethics
- Ethics, Medical -- Case Studies
- Case studies
- Patient Rights + legislation & jurisprudence -- United States
- Social Justice + ethics -- United States
- Ethics, Research + history -- United States
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- History, 20th Century -- United States
- Ethics, Medical + history -- United States
- Ethics, Clinical + history -- United States
- Ethics, Medical -- Case Reports
- Medical ethics -- Case studies
- Bioethical Issues -- United States
- Medical ethics
- Ethics, Medical -- Case Studies
- Case studies
- Patient Rights + legislation & jurisprudence -- United States
- Social Justice + ethics -- United States
- Ethics, Research + history -- United States
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