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Some choice : law, medicine, and the market

Title
Some choice : law, medicine, and the market / George J. Annas.
Author
Annas, George J.
Publication
New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.

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xvi, 303; 24 cm
Summary
  • "In Some Choice, America's leading commentator on health law and bioethics, George J. Annas, demonstrates that in contemporary medicine there is seldom a meaningful choice to be made by the patient; the important choices have been made by others. The illusion of choice perversely fosters complacency and prevents us from dealing with critical issues of life and death.".
  • "Professor Annas uses the cases of human cloning, drive-through deliveries, emergency medicine, genetic privacy, human experimentation, tobacco control, and physician-assisted suicide, among others, to suggest ways in which we can break through our vapid and superficial "some choice" public discourse on life and death issues and begin to engage in a public dialogue that enriches our lives and society rather than commodifies and cheapens them."--BOOK JACKET.
Subject
  • Informed consent (Medical law) > United States
  • Choice (Psychology)
  • Delivery of Health Care > legislation & jurisprudence
  • Choice Behavior
  • Health Policy
  • Informed Consent > legislation & jurisprudence
  • Jurisprudence
  • United States
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
1. Choice's Echo -- 2. Women and Children First -- 3. Exit, Voice, and Choice -- 4. Metaphors, Medicine, and the Market -- 5. Cancer, Prognosis, and Choice -- 6. Culture, Economics, and Choice -- 7. Treating the Untreatable -- 8. Outlawed Choices -- 9. Genetic Prophecy and Genetic Privacy -- 10. Choosing a (Healthy) President -- 11. A Woman's Choice at Work -- 12. A Soldier's Choice -- 13. Our Most Important Product -- 14. Plagued by Dreams -- 15. AIDS and TB Choices -- 16. Tobacco Choices -- 17. Cowboys and Camels -- 18. Smoking with the Devil -- 19. The Kevorkian Syndrome -- 20. Oregon's Bloodless Choice -- 21. The Bell Tolls -- 22. Toward a Globalization of Human Rights and Medical Ethics.
ISBN
0195118324 (acid-free paper)
LCCN
97048975
OCLC
ocm38067672
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries