Research Catalog

Title

Contemporary issues in bioethics / [edited by] Tom L. Beauchamp & LeRoy Walters.

Publication

Belmont, CA : Wadsworth Pub., [1999], ©1999.

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Additional Authors

• Beauchamp, Tom L.
• Walters, LeRoy.

Description

xiv, 786 pages; 24 cm

Subjects

• Medical ethics
• Ethics, Medical
• Bioethics

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

• Pt. I. Introduction to Ethics. Ch. 1. Ethical Theory and Bioethics -- Pt. II. Patient-Professional Relationships. Ch. 2. Rights and Responsibilities. Professional Codes and Statements. The Virtues and Obligations of Professionals. Patients' Rights and Responsibilities. Professionals and Specific Patient Populations. Ch. 3. The Management of Medical Information. Truth Telling and the Management of Bad News. Informed Consent. Patient Self-Determination and Advance Directives. The Management of Confidential Information -- Pt. III. The Beginning and End of Life. Ch. 4. Abortion and Maternal-Fetal Relations. The Problem of Moral Justification. Legal Issues of Abortion. Maternal-Fetal Relationships and Rights. Ch. 5. Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide. Refusal of Treatment. Voluntary Active Euthanasia. Physician-Assisted Suicide. The Right to Die -- Pt. IV. Access to Health Care. Ch. 6. Justice in the Distribution of Health Care. Just Health Care and the Right to Health Care.
• Managed Care and Universal Access. Rationing and the Oregon Plan -- Pt. V. Biomedical Research and Technology. Ch. 7. Research Involving Human and Animal Subjects. Codes and Guidelines. Ethical Issues in Human Research. Past Abuses of Human Research Subjects. Ethical Issues in Animal Research. Ch. 8. Eugenics and Human Genetics. Eugenics Programs in the Twentieth Century. The Human Genome Project and Genetic Testing. Human Gene Therapy and Genetic Enhancement. Ch. 9. Reproductive Technologies and Surrogate Parenting Arrangements. Parenting and the Family. The Problem of Infertility. In Vitro Fertilization. Surrogate Parenting Arrangements. Cloning. Regulating Assisted Reproduction -- Pt. VI. Public Health. Ch. 10. The Global AIDS Epidemic. General Issues. The Duty to Warn and the Duty not to Harm. Testing and Screening Programs. Issues in Clinical Research on HIV/AIDS.

ISBN

0534504760

LCCN

98048339

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Columbia University Libraries