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Title

Health care ethics : critical issues / [edited by] John F. Monagle, David C. Thomasma.

Publication

Gaithersburg, Md. : Aspen Publishers, 1994.

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Additional Authors

• Monagle, John F.
• Thomasma, David C., 1939-

Description

xix, 447 pages : illustrations; 26 cm

Subjects

• Ethics, Institutional
• Medical ethics
• Ethics, Medical

Note

• Contains original and previously published articles.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Pt. I. Genetics, Reproduction, and Neonatology. Ch. 1. Human Genome Research and the Responsible Use of New Genetic Knowledge / Eric T. Juengst and James D. Watson. Ch. 2. The Human Genome Initiative and Primary Care / S. Van McCrary and William L. Allen. Ch. 3. Genetics and the Problem of Harm / Jeffrey P. Kahn. Ch. 4. Ethics in Reproductive Genetics / John C. Fletcher and Mark I. Evans. Ch. 5. Reproductive Freedom: Its Nature, Bases, and Limits / Dan W. Brock. Ch. 6. Frozen Embryos and Questions of Implantation / Glenn C. Graber. Ch. 7. Abortion: The Unexplored Middle Ground / Richard A. McCormick. Ch. 8. Social and Ethical Issues in the Prenatal Diagnosis of Fetal Disorders / Diane Beeson. Ch. 9. Prenatal Screening for Maternal Drug Use / Ray Moseley, Josepha Cheong and Clarice Bell -- Pt. II. Issues in Adult Medicine. Ch. 10. The Patient Self-Determination Act / David B. Clarke. Ch. 11. Patient Concerns about Advance Directives / Suzanne B. Yellen, Ellen H. Elpern and Laurel A. Burton.
• Ch. 12. Advance Directives: Panacea for Safeguarding Patient Autonomy or a Convenient Way of Avoiding Responsibility? / Erich H. Loewy. Ch. 13. Ethics and Brain Chemistry / Thomas D. Geracioti, Jr. Ch. 14. The Plight of the Deinstitutionalized Chronic Schizophrenic: Ethical Considerations / George B. Palermo. Ch. 15. Bioethical Dilemmas in Emergency Medicine and Prehospital Care / Kenneth V. Iserson. Ch. 16. Social Systems and Professional Responsibility / Arlene Gruber. Ch. 17. Long-Term Care for Older People: Moral and Political Challenges of Access / Robert H. Binstock. Ch. 18. Treating Senility and Dementia: Ethical Challenges and Quality-of-Life Judgments / Stephen G. Post. Ch. 19. Autonomy of the Elderly Living in Nursing Homes / Jeffrey L. Crabtree. Ch. 20. Ethical Pitfalls and Benefits of Disclosure of HIV-Positive Status / David C. Thomasma and Patricia Marshall. Ch. 21. How AIDS Activists Are Changing Research / Loretta M. Kopelman -- Pt. III. End of Life, Assisted Suicide, and Euthanasia.
• Ch. 22. Advance Directives in the 1990s: Medical Care of the Dying and the Myth of Sisyphus / James F. Bresnahan. Ch. 23. Ethical Issues in the Use of Fluids and Nutrition: When Can They Be Withdrawn? / T. Patrick Hill. Ch. 24. Withholding CPR As Futile Therapy / Cory Franklin. Ch. 25. Medical Futility / Steven H. Miles. Ch. 26. The Problem with Futility / Robert D. Truog, Joel E. Frader and Allan S. Brett. Ch. 27. When Patients or Families Demand Too Much / Larry R. Churchill. Ch. 28. Care of the Hopelessly Ill: Proposed Clinical Criteria for Physician-Assisted Suicide / Timothy E. Quill, Christine K. Cassel and Diane E. Meier. Ch. 29. Euthanasia: The Way We Do It, The Way They Do It / Margaret P. Battin. Ch. 30. "Doing the Good Thing"? Psychological Reflections on Self-Determination and Dying / Jurrit Bergsma -- Pt. IV. National Issues in Health Care. Ch. 31. Practicing Medicine, Fiduciary Trust Privacy, and Public Moral Interloping after Cruzan / Michael A. Rie.
• Ch. 32. Distributive Justice: Must We Say Yes When Society Says No? / Susan S. Braithwaite. Ch. 33. Equality and Inequality in American Health Care / Charles J. Dougherty. Ch. 34. Tarasoff and the Moral Duty To Protect the Vulnerable / John W. Douard and William J. Winslade. Ch. 35. Beneficence, Scientific Autonomy, and Self-Interest: Ethical Dilemmas in Clinical Research / Edmund D. Pellegrino. Ch. 36. The Ethics of Health Care As a Business / Patricia H. Werhane. Ch. 37. The Ethics of Medical Entrepreneurship / David C. Thomasma -- Pt. V. Institutional and Relationship Issues. Ch. 38. Educating Ethics Committee Members: Programs and Networking / Ray Moseley and Mary Harward. Ch. 39. Health Care Institutional Ethics: Broader than Clinical Ethics / Dennis Brodeur. Ch. 40. Relationships in Health Care Revisited / Roberta Springer Loewy. Ch. 41. Technology, Older Persons, and the Doctor-Patient Relationship / Myles N. Sheehan -- Pt. VI. Methodology: Old and New Approaches.
• Ch. 42. Getting Down to Cases: The Revival of Casuistry in Bioethics / John D. Arras. Ch. 43. Discovering Challenges to Ethical Theory in Experience-Based Narratives of Nurses' Everyday Ethical Comportment / Patricia Benner. Ch. 44. Ethical Issues in Pharmacy: Questions without Answers / Bruce David White. Ch. 45. Bioethics As Social Problem Solving / Paul T. Durbin. Ch. 46. Ethically Responsible Creativity: Friendship of an Understanding Heart: A Cognitively Affective Model for Bioethical Decision Making / John F. Monagle.

ISBN

083420505X

LCCN

93034320

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries