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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
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
©1997.
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| 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.