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Am I my brother's keeper? : the ethical frontiers of biomedicine /

The author discusses "some of the most pressing issues in medical ethics today--including doctor-assisted suicide, gene therapy, fetal research, access to health care," and cloning.--Jacket

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Caplan, Arthur L.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©1997.
Colección:Medical ethics series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • pt. 1. Research, experimentation, and innovation: And baby makes--moral muddles
  • The intrusion of evil, the use of data from unethical medical experiments
  • Have a heart? The ethical lessons of the development of the total artificial heart
  • "What a long, strange trip it's been," the debate over the use of fetal tissue for transplantation research
  • pt. 2. Starting and stopping medical treatment for the very young and very old: Hard cases make bad law, the legacy of the Baby Doe controversy
  • Analogies to the Holocaust and contemporary bioethical disputes about assisted suicide and euthanasia
  • Will Dr. Kevorkian kill hospice?
  • Odds and ends
  • No sale: markets, organs, and tissues
  • Is the use of animal organs for transplants immoral?
  • Am I my brother's keeper? Ethics and the use of living donors
  • pt. 4. Health policy: Dead as a doornail
  • sinners, saints, and access to health care
  • The ethics of gatekeepers
  • pt. 5. What is your doctor trying to do to you? Who says you're sick?
  • Curing what ails the medical model
  • If gene therapyis the cure, what's the disease?
  • What's wrong with eugenics?
  • Do not copy without permission.