Research Catalog

Title

Bioethics : basic writings on the key ethical questions that surround the major, modern biological possibilities and problems / edited by Thomas A. Shannon.

Publication

Mahwah, N.J. : Paulist Press, c1987.

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Additional Authors

Shannon, Thomas A. (Thomas Anthony), 1940-

Description

x, 620 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Subjects

• Bioethics
• Ethics, Medical
• Bioethics > Collected Works
• Ethics, Medical > Collected Works
• Medical ethics
• Collected Work

Genre/Form

Collected Work

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Introduction: thematic ethical concepts / Thomas A. Shannon -- Abortion -- Ethical problems of abortion / Sissela Bok -- Breaking through the stereotypes / Sidney Callahan, Daniel Callahan -- Abortion: on fetal indications / Susan Nicholson -- Abortion: a review of ethical aspects of public policy / Thomas A. Shannon -- Severely handicapped children -- Abortion, euthanasia and care of defective newborns / John Fletcher -- Mongolism, parental desires and the right to life / James M. Gustafson -- Guidelines for deciding care of critically ill or dying patients / Raymond S. Duff -- Child abuse and neglect prevention and treatment / Department of Health and Human Services -- Death and dying -- Brain death / Frank J. Veith ... [et al.] -- Right to die / Hans Jonas -- Defining appropriate medical care: providing nutrients and hydration for the dying / William J. Curran -- On removing food and water: against the stream / Gilbert Meilaender -- Keeping dead mothers alive during pregnancy: ethical issues / Thomas A. Shannon.
• Stopping long-term dialysis: an empirical study of withdrawal of life-supporting treatment / Steven Neu, Carl M. Kjellstrand -- Research and human experimentation -- Philosophical reflections on experimenting with human subjects / Hans Jonas -- Ethical design of human experiments / David D. Rutstein -- Clarifying the concepts of research ethics / Robert J. Levine -- Research using intentional deception / Diana Baumrind -- Ethical dilemmas in obtaining informed consent -- Respect for persons and informed consent to participate in research / Karen Lebacqz, Robert J. Levine -- Validity of ignorant consent to medical research / Benjamin Freedman -- Deception and informed consent in research / Alan Soble -- Ethics of giving placebos / Sissela Bok -- Genetic engineering -- Social and ethical issues / Presidential Commission -- Guidelines for the ethical, social and legal issues in prenatal diagnosis / Tabitha M. Powledge, John Fletcher -- Public policy issues in genetic counseling / James F. Childress, Kenneth Casebeer.
• Making babies revisited / Leon R. Kass -- External human fertilization; an evaluation of policy / Clifford Grobstein, Michael Flower, John Mendeloff -- Allocation of scarce resources -- Social justice and equal access to health care / Gene Outka -- Doing better and feeling worse: the political pathology of health policy / Aaron Wildavsky -- Harvesting the dead / Willardd Gaylin -- Allocating scarce medical resources and the availability of organ transplantation: some moral presuppositions / H. Tristram Engelhardt -- Medicine versus economics / Lester C. Thurow -- Instruction on respect for human life in its origin and on the dignity of procreation: replies to certain questions of the day / Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

ISBN

• 0809128055 (pbk.)
• 9780809128051 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^86025545^

OCLC

• 14717665
• SCSB-14250524

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library