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If I were a rich man could I buy a pancreas? : and other essays on the ethics of health care /
Arthur L. Caplan has been an important voice in bioethics for many years. In a great number of essays and articles he has taken on some of the most pressing issues in bioethics today. This book brings his most important work together with new essays on autonomy in nursing homes and on the ethical is...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
©1992.
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| Colección: | Medical ethics series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- pt. I: The nature of applied ethics. Can applied ethics be effective in health care and should it strive to be?
- Moral experts and moral expertise : Does either exist?
- pt. II: Ethical issues in animal and human experimentation. Beastly conduct : ethics issues in animal experimentation
- Moral community and the responsibility of scientists
- On privacy and confidentiality in social science research
- Is there a duty to serve as a subject in biomedical research?
- pt. III: Advances in reproduction and genetics. New technologies in reproduction, new ethical problems
- Mapping morality : ethics and the human genome project
- pt. IV: Transplants and other unnatural acts. Requests, gifts, and obligations : the ethics of organ procurement
- If I were a rich man, could I buy a pancreas? : problems in the policies and criteria used to allocate organs for transplantation in the United States
- Ethical issues raised by research involving xenografts
- pt. V: Aging, chronic illness, and rehabilitation. Is aging a disease?
- Let wisdom find a way : the concept of competency in the care of the elderly
- Is medical care the right prescription for chronic illness?
- Informed consent and provider/patient relationships in rehabilitation medicine
- Can autonomy be saved?
- pt. VI: Money, medicine, and morality. The high cost of technological development : a caveat for policymakers
- Hard data is the only answer to hard choices in health care
- Ethics, cost-containment, and the allocation of scarce resources.