Research Catalog

Title

The Blackwell guide to medical ethics / edited by Rosamond Rhodes, Leslie P. Francis, and Anita Silvers.

Publication

Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2007.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Rhodes, Rosamond.
• Francis, Leslie, 1946-
• Silvers, Anita

Description

xii, 435 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Summary

The Blackwell Guide to Medical Ethics is a collection of new essays from acknowledged leaders in the field, designed to guide students through the complexities of the current state of ethics in medicine.

Series Statement

Blackwell philosophy guides ; 21

Uniform Title

Blackwell philosophy guides 21.

Alternative Title

• Guide to medical ethics
• Medical ethics

Subject

• Medical ethics
• Ethics, Medical
• Bioethical Issues > legislation & jurisprudence
• Patient Rights > ethics
• Public Policy

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Autonomy, the good life, and controversial choices / Julian Savulescu -- Individual responsibility and reproduction / Rachel A. Ankeny -- Patient and family decisions about life-extension and death / Felicia Nimue Ackerman -- The professional responsibilities of medicine / Rosamond Rhodes -- Truth telling / Roger Higgs -- Medical confidentiality / Kenneth Kipnis -- Patient competence and surrogate decision making / Dan W. Brock -- Ending life / F.M. Kamm -- Discrimination in medical practice : justice and the obligations of health care providers to disadvantaged patients / Leslie P. Francis -- Institutional practices, ethics, and the physician / Mary V. Rorty, Ann E. Mills, and Patricia H. Werhane -- Reproductive choice / Rebecca Bennett and John Harris -- Public policy and ending lives / Evert van Leeuwen and Gerrit Kimsma -- Drug legalization / Douglas N. Husak --
• Selling organs, gametes, and surrogacy services / Janet Radcliffe Richards -- The patient as victim and vector : the challenge of infectious disease for bioethics / Margaret P. Battin ... [et al.] -- Abuses of science in medical ethics / Glenn McGee and Dýrleif Bjarnadóttir -- Allocation of scarce resources / Paul Menzel -- Just caring : the challenges of priority-setting in public health / Leonard M. Fleck -- Justice and the financing of health care / Stephen R. Latham -- Judgment and justice : evaluating health care for chronically ill and disabled patients / Anita Silvers -- Justice in research on human subjects / David R. Buchanan and Franklin G. Miller -- Ethics of disclosure following a medical injury : time for reform? / Troyen Anthony Brennan -- Pre-existing conditions : genetic testing, causation, and the justice of medical insurance / Robert T. Pennock.

ISBN

• 1405125837 (hardback : alk. paper)
• 9781405125833 (hardback : alk. paper)
• 1405125845 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9781405125840 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

• ^^2006027510
• 9781405125833
• 9781405125840

OCLC

• 71139431
• SCSB-10224486

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library