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Medical ethics : accounts of ground-breaking cases
- Title
- Medical ethics : accounts of ground-breaking cases / Gregory E. Pence.
- Author
- Pence, Gregory E.
- Publication
- New York : McGraw-Hill, c2011.
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Details
- Description
- xxi, 353, N-26, I-14 p.; 23 cm.
- Subjects
- Note
- Previously published in 2008 under title: Classic cases in medical ethics.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Contents
- Requests to die : Elizabeth Bouvia and Larry McAfee -- Comas : Karen Quinlan, Nancy Cruzan, and Terri Schiavo -- Physician-assisted dying : new frontiers -- Abortion : the trial of Kenneth Edelin -- Assisted reproduction, multiple births, and elderly parents--time to regulate? -- Embryos, stem cells, and cloning -- The ethics of treating impaired babies -- Can medical research on animals be justified? : the Gennarelli and Taub cases -- Research on human subjects -- Surgeons' desire for fame : the ethics of the first heart, hand, and face transplants -- Allocation of artificial and transplantable organs : the God Committee and live donors -- Using one baby for another : babies Fae, Gabriel, and Theresa, and conjoined twins -- Involuntary psychiatric commitment : the case of Joyce Brown -- Testing in advance for genetic disease -- Preventing the global spread of Aids -- Medicine and inequality -- David Reimer : the "John/Joan case" -- Ethical theories and bioethics.
- ISBN
- 9780073407494 (alk. paper)
- 0073407496 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2010002490
- OCLC
- ocn501512420
- 501512420
- SCSB-8856115
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries