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Biomedical ethics and the law / edited by James M. Humber and Robert F. Almeder.
- Title
- Biomedical ethics and the law / edited by James M. Humber and Robert F. Almeder.
- Publication
- New York : Plenum Press, c1979.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | US 976.2 BIO | Off-site | |
| Text | Request in advance | W 50.3 B613 1979 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xiv, 658 p.; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Collected Work
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographies and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction to ethical theory / James M. Humber and Robert F. Almeder -- Part I. Abortion -- Roe v. Wade -- The wages of crying wolf : a comment on Roe v. Wade / John Hart Ely -- Maher v. Roe -- Abortion and the law / Baruch A. Brody -- A defense of abortion / Judith Jarvis Thomson -- Abortion : the avoidable moral dilemma / James M. Humber -- Part II. Mental illness -- Psychiatric intervention / Leon Eisenberg -- The myth of mental illness / Thomas Szasz -- Mental health and mental illness : some problems of definition and concept formation / Ruth Macklin -- Genetic aspects of schizophrenia / Arthur Falek -- Psychopathy and moral understanding / Antony Duff -- Psychiatrists and the adversary process / David L. Bazelon -- Part III. Human experimentation -- Ethics and clinical research / Henry K. Beecher -- Scientific investigations on man : a medical research worker's viewpoint / Michael B. Shimkin -- Philosophical reflections on experimenting with human subjects / Hans Jonas -- Informed (but uneducated) consent / Franz J. Ingelfinger -- Realities of patient consent to medical research / John Fletcher -- Ethical issues involved in experimentation on the nonviable human fetus / Richard Wasserstrom -- Proxy consent in the experimentation situation / Richard A. McCormick -- Part IV. Human genetics -- Ethical issues arising from the possible uses of genetic knowledge / Tracy M. Sonneborn -- Implications of prenatal diagnosis for the human right to live / Leon R. Kass -- Implications of prenatal diagnosis for the quality of, and right to, human life : society as a standard / Robert S. Morison -- Practical and ethical problems in human genetics / Kurt Hirschhorn -- Reproductive rights and genetic disease / Lawrence P. Ulrich -- On justifications for coercive genetic control / Thomas L. Beauchamp -- Legal rights and moral rights / Alexander M. Capron -- Privacy and genetic information / Herbert A. Lubs -- Recombinant DNA / John J. Madden -- The recombinant DNA debate / Stephen P. Stich -- The ethics of recombinant DNA research / James M. Humber -- Part V. Dying -- The problems in prolongation of life / Jonas Robitscher -- Active and passive euthanasia / James Rachels -- Choosing not to prolong life / Robert M. Veatch -- The allocation of exotic medical lifesaving therapy / Nicholas Rescher -- The role of moral considerations in the allocation of exotic medical lifesaving therapy / Robert F. Almeder -- A statutory definition of the standards for determining human death : an appraisal and a proposal / Alexander M. Capron and Leon R. Kass -- Existentialism and the fear of dying / Michael A. Slote -- The belief in a life after death / C.J. Ducasse -- The experience of dying / Raymond Moody.
- ISBN
- 0306402394
- 0306402424 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^^79017758^
- OCLC
- 5264756
- SCSB-9885068
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library