Research Catalog

Title

Medical ethics / edited by R.S. Downie.

Publication

Aldershot ; Brookfield, USA : Dartmouth Publ., ©1996.

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Details

Additional Authors

Downie, R. S. (Robert Silcock)

Description

xxii, 495 pages; 25 cm.

Series Statement

The international research library of philosophy ; 16. The philosophy of value

Uniform Title

• International research library of philosophy ; 16.
• International research library of philosophy. Philosophy of value

Subject

• Medical ethics
• Ethics, Medical
• Medizinische Ethik
• Medische ethiek

Genre/Form

Aufsatzsammlung.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. ix-xi) and index.

Contents

• 1. American Moralism and the Origin of Bioethics in the United States / Albert R. Jonsen -- 2. How Medicine Saved the Life of Ethics / Stephen Toulmin -- 3. A Critique of Principlism / K. Danner Clouser and Bernard Gert -- 4. Casuistry as Methodology in Clinical Ethics / Albert R. Jonsen -- 5. Case Method and Casuistry: The Problem of Bias / Loretta M. Kopelman -- 6. Separating Care and Cure: An Analysis of Historical and Contemporary Images of Nursing and Medicine / Nancy S. Jecker and Donnie J. Self -- 7. Where Ethics Comes From and What to Do About It / Carl Elliott -- 8. Clinical Ethics as Medical Hermeneutics / David C. Thomasma -- 9. The Hyperreality of Clinical Ethics: A Unitary Theory and Hermeneutics / Henk Ten Have.
• 10. Hermeneutical Clinical Ethics: A Commentary / Stephen L. Daniel -- 11. Actions, Intentions, and Consequences: The Doctrine of Doing and Allowing / Warren S. Quinn -- 12. Quinn on Doing and Allowing / John Martin Fischer and Mark Ravizza -- 13. Active and Passive Euthanasia / James Rachels -- 14. Euthanasia, Withholding Life-prolonging Treatment, and Moral Differences Between Killing and Letting Die / Raanan Gillon -- 15. Vital Distinctions, Mortal Questions: Debating Euthanasia and Health-Care Costs / Daniel Callahan -- 16. Utilitarianism and Respect for Human Life / T.L.S. Sprigge -- 17. Advance Directives and the Personal Identity Problem / Allen Buchanan -- 18. Philosophy, Medicine and its Technologies / Brenda Almond.
• 19. In Vitro Fertilization: The Ethical Issues / John Harris -- 20. In Vitro Fertilization: The Ethical Issues (II) / Mary Warnock -- 21. Surrogate Mothering: Exploitation or Empowerment? / Laura M. Purdy -- 22. Artificial Means of Reproduction and Our Understanding of the Family / Ruth Macklin -- 23. On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion / Mary Anne Warren -- 24. IVF Technology and the Argument from Potential / Peter Singer and Karen Dawson -- 25. Of Mice But Not Men: Problems of the Randomized Clinical Trial / Samuel Hellman and Deborah S. Hellman -- 26. Equipoise and the Ethics of Clinical Research / Benjamin Freedman -- 27. Xenotransplantation and Speciesism / P. Singer -- 28. Is Gene Therapy a Form of Eugenics? / John Harris -- 29. The Case for Involuntary Hospitalization of the Mentally Ill / Paul Chodoff.
• 30. When Competent Patients Make Irrational Choices / Dan W. Brock and Steven A. Wartman -- 31. On Psychiatry and Souls: Walker Percy and the Ontological Lapsometer / Carl Elliott -- 32. Concepts of Disease and the Abuse of Psychiatry in the USSR / K.W.M. Fulford, A.Y.U. Smirnov and E. Snow -- 33. The Ideal Advocate and Limited Resources / Norman Daniels -- 34. QALYfying the Value of Life / John Harris -- 35. Doing Harm: Living Organ Donors, Clinical Research and The Tenth Man / Carl Elliott -- 36. Health / R.M. Hare -- 37. Praxis Makes Perfect: Illness as a Bridge Between Biological Concepts of Disease and Social Conceptions of Health / K.W.M. Fulford -- 38. Public Health Medicine -- A Different Kind of Ethics? / Bruce G. Charlton -- 39. The Ethics of Medical Involvement in Torture / R.S. Downie -- 40. The Ethics of Medical Involvement in Torture: Commentary / R.M. Hare.

ISBN

• 1855216310
• 9781855216310

LCCN

96000608

OCLC

• ocm34115994
• 34115994
• SCSB-2105845

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library