Research Catalog

Title

Ethics and law in modern medicine : hypothetical case studies / by David m. Vukadinovich and Susan L. Krinsky.

Author

Vukadinovich, David M.

Publication

Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001.

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

Krinsky, Susan L.

Description

ix, 256 p.; 25 cm.

Series Statement

International library of ethics, law, and the new medicine ; v. 6

Uniform Title

International library of ethics, law, and the new medicine v. 6.

Subject

• Legislation, Medical
• Delivery of Health Care > legislation & jurisprudence
• Ethics, Clinical
• Medical ethics > Decision making
• Life and death, Power over > Decision making
• Clinical medicine > Decision making
• Decision making > Moral and ethical aspects
• United States

Genre/Form

Case Reports

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Ch. 1. Health care professionals and HIV: the duty to warn -- Ch. 2. Emergency care and HIV: treatment policy and practice -- Ch. 3. A revolutionary policy? mandatory disclosure of HIV serostatus -- Ch. 4. Minors and health care: the limits of consent and confidentiality -- Ch. 5. The rights to refuse and demand medical treatment: the bounds of autonomy and futility -- Ch. 6. Religious freedom and the right to refuse care: what are the limits? -- Ch. 7. Assisted reproductive technology: the business of making babies -- Ch. 8. Twins and transplants: choosing who lives -- Ch. 9. Free abortion services and fetal tissue research: freedom of choice and coercion -- Ch. 10. Property rights, body parts, and reproduction: who owns the human body? -- Ch. 11. Outbreak in America: the policy of public verses private interests.

ISBN

140200088X (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2001050389

OCLC

48572048

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library