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Title

Ethical issues in death and dying / edited by Tom L. Beauchamp, Robert M. Veatch.

Publication

Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Prentice Hall, [1996], ©1996.

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Additional Authors

• Beauchamp, Tom L.
• Veatch, Robert M.

Description

xiv, 458 pages; 23 cm

Subjects

• Terminal Care
• Terminal care > Moral and ethical aspects
• Right to die
• Death
• Euthanasia > Moral and ethical aspects
• Ethics, Medical
• Suicide > Moral and ethical aspects

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

1. The Definition of Death -- The Emergence of a Brain-Oriented Definition -- Defining Death: Medical, Legal and Ethical Issues in the Definition of Death / President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research -- Guidelines for the Determination of Death / Report of the Medical Consultants on the Diagnosis of Death to the President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research -- Non-Brain Formulations: The Alternative to the Brain-based Definitions / President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research -- Against the Stream: Comments on the Definition and Redefinition of Death / Hans Jonas -- Establishing Criteria of Death / J. David Bleich -- Controversies Surrounding the Definition -- The Higher Brain Formulations / President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research -- The Impending Collapse of the Whole-Brain Definition of Death / Robert M. Veatch -- In re T.A.C.P. (Baby Theresa) / Supreme Court of Florida -- Brain Death, Religious Freedom, and Public Policy / Robert S. Olick -- 2. Truthtelling with Dying Patients -- Survey Data -- Changes in Physicians' Attitudes Toward Telling the Cancer Patient / Dennis H. Novack, Robin Plumer, Raymond L. Smith, Herbert Ochitill, Gary R. Morrow and John M. Bennett -- Arguments Grounded in Consequences -- Truth and the Physician / Bernard C. Meyer -- The Classification of Duties - Veracity / Henry Sidgwick -- The Use of Truth and Falsehood in Medicine: An Experimental Study / Richard C. Cabot -- Arguments Grounded in Duty -- On the Supposed Right to Tell Lies From Benevolent Motives / Immanuel Kant -- Truthfulness as a Prima Facie Duty / W. D. Ross -- Examples of Mixed or Balancing Approaches -- Telling the Truth / Jennifer Jackson -- Truth in Our Intercourse with the Sick / Worthington Hooker -- 3. Suicide -- The Definition of Suicide -- Defining Suicide -- Manuel G. Velasquez -- The Problem of Defining Suicide / Tom L. Beauchamp -- Classical Problems in the Morality of Suicide -- Whether It Is Lawful to Kill Oneself / St. Thomas Aquinas -- Of Suicide / David Hume -- The Prevention, Intervention, and Control of Suicide -- Moral Problems of Suicide Intervention / Tom L. Beauchamp and James F. Childress -- The Role of Law in Suicide Prevention: Beyond Civil Commitment - A Bystander's Duty to Report Suicide Threats / Kate E. Block -- Whose Life is it Anyway? / Joel Feinberg -- Suicide Prevention and the Value of Human Life / Erwin Ringel -- 4. Physician-Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia -- Problems in the Morality of Actions by Physicians -- Death and Dignity: A Case of Individualized Decision Making / Timothy E. Quill -- Distortion of the Healing Relationship / Edmund D. Pellegrino -- A Case Against Dutch Euthanasia / Richard Fenigsen -- Problems in Law and Public Policy -- Medical Practice with Regard to Euthanasia and Related Medical Decisions in the Netherlands / Ministry of Welfare, Health and Cultural Affairs, The Netherlands, The Remmelink Report -- Sue Rodriguez v. Attorney General of Canada and Attorney General of British Columbia / Supreme Court of Canada -- People of the State of Michigan v. Jack Kevorkian / David F. Breck -- The Oregon Death with Dignity Act -- 5. Forgoing Treatment and Causing Death -- Active and Passive Euthanasia -- Active and Passive Euthanasia / James Rachels -- Rachels on Active and Passive Euthanasia / Tom L. Beauchamp and James F. Childress -- Intending and Causing Death -- Concurring in United States Supreme Court, Cruzan v. Director, Missouri Dept. of Health / Antonin Scalia -- Deciding to Forego Life-Sustaining Treatment / President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research -- Cause of Death / Dan W. Brock -- Intending to Kill and the Principle of Double Effect / Edmund D. Pellegrino -- Patient Refusal of Hydration and Nutrition: An Alternative to Physician-Assisted Suicide or Voluntary Active Euthanasia / James L. Bernat, Bernard Gert and R. Peter Mogielnicki -- 6. Decisions to Forgo Treatment Involving (Once) Competent Persons -- Decisions by Competent Adults -- Bouvia v. Superior Court / California Court of Appeals, Second District -- Conflicts between Patients' Wishes to Forgo Treatment and the Policies of Health Care Facilities / Steven H. Miles, Peter A. Singer and Mark Siegler -- State of Georgia v. McAfee / Supreme Court of Georgia -- Helping Larry James McAfee Die / Nat Hentoff -- The Medical Directive / Linda L. Emanuel and Ezekiel J. Emanuel -- Trumping Advance Directives / Dan W. Brock -- Decisions on Behalf of Formerly Competent Adults -- Cruzan v. Director, Missouri Department of Health / United States Supreme Court -- Life and Death Choices after Cruzan / Larry Gostin -- Cruzan: No Rights Violated! / John A. Robertson -- 7. Decisions to Forgo Treatment Involving Never-Competent Patients -- Decisions on Behalf of Children -- In the Matter of the Treatment and Care of Infant Doe / Circuit Court for the County of Monroe, State of Indiana -- Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention and Treatment / U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Human Development Services -- Treatment Decisions for Seriously Ill Newborns: Ethical Critique of Baby Doe Rule / American Medical Association, Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs -- Human Rights and the Omission or Cessation of Treatment for Infants / Amnon Goldworth -- The Right to Die vs. Death in the Best Interests of the Infant / Alan R. Fleischman -- The Linares Affair / John D. Lantos, Steven H. Miles and Christine K. Cassel -- Decisions on Behalf of Adults -- Superintendent of Belchertown State School v. Saikewicz / Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Hampshire -- Deciding for Others: The Permanently Unconscious and the Severely and Permanently Demented / Allen E. Buchanan and Dan W. Brock -- The Small Beginnings of Euthanasia: Examining the Erosion in Legal Prohibitions against Mercy-Killing / C. Everett Koop and Edward R. Grant -- 8. Futile Treatment and Terminal Care -- The Concept of Futility -- Who Defines Futility? / Stuart J. Youngner -- Futility: A Concept in Search of a Definition / Ronald Cranford and Lawrence Gostin -- The Case of Helga Wanglie -- In re: the Conservatorship of Helga M. Wanglie / State of Minnesota, District Court, Probate Court Division, County of Hennepin, Fourth Judicial District -- Informed Demand for Non-Beneficial Medical Treatment / Steven H. Miles -- The Case of Helga Wanglie: A New Kind of Right to Die Case / Marcia Angell -- The Case of Baby K -- The Moral Debate -- The Concept of Futility: Patients Do Not Have a Right to Demand Medically Useless Treatment / James F. Drane and John L. Coulehan -- Futile Care: Physicians Should Not Be Allowed to Refuse to Treat / Robert M. Veatch and Carol Mason Spicer -- 9. Social Reasons for Limiting Terminal Care -- An Opening Case -- When is Patient Care not Costworthy? / Dan W. Brock -- The Economics of Terminal Care -- New Do-not-Resuscitate Policies: A First Step in Cost Control / Donald J. Murphy and Thomas E. Finucane -- For the SUPPORT Investigators, Prognosis-Based Futility Guidelines: Does Anyone Win? / Joan M. Teno, et al -- Moral Reflection on the Economics of Terminal Care -- Medical Care at the End of Life: The Interaction of Economics and Ethics / A. A. Scitovsky and A. M. Capron -- Quailty of Life and Resource Allocation / Michael Lockwood -- Age and the Allocation of Resources -- The Value of Life / John Harris -- Limiting Health Care for the Old / Daniel Callahan -- A Lifespan Approach to Health Care / Norman Daniels -- How Age Should Matter: Justice as the Basis for Limiting Care to the Elderly / Robert M. Veatch.

ISBN

0132827328

LCCN

95009228

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Columbia University Libraries