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The Blackwell guide to medical ethics

Title
The Blackwell guide to medical ethics / edited by Rosamond Rhodes, Leslie P. Francis, and Anita Silvers.
Publication
Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2007.

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Additional Authors
  • Rhodes, Rosamond.
  • Francis, Leslie, 1946-
  • Silvers, Anita.
Description
xii, 435 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
Series Statement
Blackwell philosophy guides ; 21
Alternative Title
Guide to medical ethics
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
  • Autonomy, the good life and controversial choices / Julian Savulescu -- Individual responsibility and reproduction / Rachel A. Ankeny -- Patient and family decisions about life-extension and death / Felicia Nimue Ackerman -- The professional responsibilities of medicine / Rosamond Rhodes -- Truth telling / Roger Higgs -- Medical confidentiality / Kenneth Kipnis -- Patient competence and surrogate decision making / Dan Brock -- Ending life / Frances Myrna Kamm -- Discrimination in medical practice : justice and the obligations of health care providers to disadvantaged patients / Leslie P. Francis -- Institutional practices, ethics, and the physician / Mary V. Rorty, Ann E. Mills, and Patricia H. Werhane -- Reproductive choice / Rebecca Bennett and John Harris -- Public policy and ending lives / Evert van Leeuwen and Gerrit Kimsma -- Drug legalization / Douglas N. Husak --
  • Selling organs, gametes, and surrogacy services / Janet Radcliffe-Richards -- The patient as victim and vector : the challenge of infectious disease for bioethics / Margaret P. Battin ... [et al.] -- Controlling science and technology / Glenn McGee and Dýrleif Bjarnadóttir -- Allocation of scarce resources / Paul Menzel -- Just caring : the challenges of priority-setting in public health / Leonard M. Fleck -- Justice and the financing of health care / Stephen R. Latham -- Judgment and justice : evaluating health care for chronically ill and disabled patients / Anita Silvers -- Justice in research on human subjects / David R. Buchanan and Franklin G. Miller -- Community standards, medical mistakes, practice reform & malpractice / Troyen Anthony Brennan -- Pre-existing conditions : genetic testing, causation and the justice of medical insurance / Robert T. Pennock.
Call Number
JFF 07-901
ISBN
  • 9781405125833 (hardback : alk. paper)
  • 1405125837 (hardback : alk. paper)
  • 9781405125840 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 1405125845 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
2006027510
OCLC
71139431
Title
The Blackwell guide to medical ethics / edited by Rosamond Rhodes, Leslie P. Francis, and Anita Silvers.
Imprint
Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2007.
Series
Blackwell philosophy guides ; 21
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Added Author
Rhodes, Rosamond.
Francis, Leslie, 1946-
Silvers, Anita.
Research Call Number
JFF 07-901
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