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Medical ethics, accounts of ground-breaking cases, Gregory E. Pence

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Medical ethics, accounts of ground-breaking cases, Gregory E. Pence

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Medical ethics

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

501512420

Responsibility statement

Gregory E. Pence

Sub title

accounts of ground-breaking cases

Table Of Contents

Part 1: Ground-breaking cases about death and dying. Requests to die : Elizabeth Bouvia and Larry McAfee ; Comas : Karen Quinlan, Nancy Cruzan, and Terri Schiavo ; Physician-assisted dying : new frontiers -- Part 2: Ground-breaking cases about the beginnings of human life. Abortion : the trial of Kenneth Edelin ; Assisted reproduction, multiple births, and elderly parents : time to regulate? ; Embryos, stem cells, and cloning ; The ethics of treating impaired babies ; Can medical research on animals be justified? : the Gennarelli and Taub cases -- Part 3: Interlude for ethical theory. Research on human subjects -- Part 4: Ground-breaking cases about research. Surgeons' desire for fame : the ethics of the first heart, hand, and face transplants ; Allocation of artificial and transplantable organs : the God Committee and live donors ; Using one baby for another : babies Fae, Gabriel, and Theresa, and conjoined twins ; Involuntary psychiatric commitment : the case of Joyce Brown ; Testing in advance for genetic disease -- Part 5: Ground-breaking cases about individual rights versus the public good. Preventing the global spread of Aids ; Medicine and inequality ; David Reimer : the "John/Joan case" ; Ethical theories and bioethics

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