Research Catalog

Title

Frontiers in bioethics : essays dedicated to John C. Fletcher / edited by Franklin G. Miller.

Publication

Hagerstown, Md. : University Pub. Group, c2000.

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Additional Authors

• Fletcher, John C.
• Miller, Franklin G.

Description

xvi, 216 p.; 23 cm.

Subject

• Bioethics
• Medical ethics
• Ethics, Medical
• Bioethical Issues

Note

• "In association with the Editorial Board of the Journal of Contemporary Health Law and Policy, Columbus School of Law, Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C."

Bibliography (note)

• "Bibliography of Publications by John C. Fletcher": p. [199]-214.
• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Society and the not-so-new genetics: what are we afraid of? some future predictions from a social scientist / Dorothy C. Wertz -- Reassessing the influence of the Nuremberg Code on American medical ethics / Jonathan D. Moreno -- Physician-assisted suicide: a tragic view / John D. Arras -- Clinical pragmatism: John Dewey and clinical ethics / Franklin G. Miller, Joseph J. Fins, and Matthew D. Bacchetta -- Medicine, eugenics, and the Supreme Court: from coercive sterilization to reproductive freedom / Paul A. Lombardo -- Elective fetal reduction: the ultimate elective surgery / Mary V. Rorty and JoAnne D. Pinkerton -- Managed care: some basic ethical issues / Edward M. Spencer and Ann E. Mills -- The Fletcher legacy: the arrow flies straight and true / Mary Faith Marshall.

ISBN

1555720757

OCLC

45347007

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library