Bibliograph

Everybody wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to die, bioethics and the transformation of health care in America, Amy Gutmann and Jonathan D. Moreno

Type

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Everybody wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to die, bioethics and the transformation of health care in America, Amy Gutmann and Jonathan D. Moreno

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-315) and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Everybody wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to die

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1104214563

Responsibility statement

Amy Gutmann and Jonathan D. Moreno

Sub title

bioethics and the transformation of health care in America

Summary

Americans today pay far more for health care while having among the lowest life expectancies and highest infant mortality of any affluent nation. Gutmann and Moreno explain how bioethics came to dominate the national spotlight, leading and responding to a revolution in doctor-patient relations, a burgeoning world of organ transplants, and new reproductive technologies that benefit millions but create a host of legal and ethical challenges. They address head-on the most fundamental challenges in American health care, while exploring the American paradox of wanting to have it all without paying the price. -- adapted from jacket

Table Of Contents

Introduction: A duty to tell -- Part I. New Voices : -- 1. Changing times -- 2. Bioethics goes public -- 3. The public's health -- Part II. Matters of Life and Death : -- 4. Uneasy deaths -- 5. The high price of unfair health care -- 6. Foraging for ethics -- Part III. Moral Science : -- 7. Human experiments -- 8. Reproductive technologies -- 9. Opening cell doors -- Epilogue: Transforming minds

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