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Title

Practical reasoning in bioethics / James F. Childress.

Author

Childress, James F.

Publication

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [1997], ©1997.

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Description

xiv, 385 pages; 25 cm.

Summary

• In his latest book, renowned ethicist James F. Childress uses various metaphors and analogies to highlight the role of imagination in practical reasoning. Childress shows how principles, metaphors, and analogies illuminate moral problems and issues in science, medicine, and health care.
• The issues he considers include screening and testing for HIV infection, informed consent to and refusal of life-sustaining treatment, allocating scarce health care resources, providing access to and controlling the costs of health care, and obtaining organs and tissues for transplantation.

Series Statement

Medical ethics series

Uniform Title

Medical ethics series.

Subjects

• Bioethics
• Medical ethics
• Ethics, Medical

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• 1. Metaphor and Analogy in Bioethics -- 2. Ethical Theories, Principles, and Casuistry in Bioethics: An Interpretation and Defense of Principalism -- 3. Metaphors and Models of Doctor-Patient Relationships: Their Implications for Autonomy / James F. Childress and Mark Siegler -- 4. If You Let Them, They'd Stay in Bed All Morning: The Principle of Respect for Autonomy and the Tyranny of Regulation in Nursing Home Life -- 5. How Much Should the Cancer Patient Know and Decide? / James F. Childress and Bettina Schoene-Seifert -- 6. Mandatory HIV Screening and Testing -- 7. "Who Is a Doctor to Decide Whether a Person Lives or Dies?": Reflections on Dax's Case / James F. Childress and Courtney S. Campbell -- 8. Must Patients Always Be Given Food and Water? / James F. Childress and Joanne Lynn -- 9. When Is It Morally Justifiable to Discontinue Medical Nutrition and Hydration? -- 10. Who Shall Live When Not All Can Live? --
• 11. Triage in Neonatal Intensive Care: The Possibilities and Limitations of a Metaphor -- 12. Fairness in the Allocation and Delivery of Health Care: A Case Study of Organ Transplantation -- 13. Rights to Health Care in a Democratic Society -- 14. Ethical Criteria for Policies to Obtain Organs for Transplantation -- 15. Human Body Parts as Property: An Assessment of Ownership, Sales, and Financial Incentives -- 16. Ethics, Public Policy, and Human Fetal Tissue Transplantation Research.

ISBN

0253332184 (cl : alk. paper)

LCCN

96025001

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries