Medical ethics : accounts of ground-breaking cases / Gregory E. Pence.

Author
Pence, Gregory E. [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
6th ed.
Published/​Created
New York : McGraw-Hill, [2011], ©2011.
Description
xxi, 353, N-26, I-14 pages ; 23 cm

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    Notes
    Previously published in 2008 under title: Classic cases in medical ethics.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
    Contents
    • Requests to die : Elizabeth Bouvia and Larry McAfee
    • Comas : Karen Quinlan, Nancy Cruzan, and Terri Schiavo
    • Physician-assisted dying : new frontiers
    • Abortion : the trial of Kenneth Edelin
    • Assisted reproduction, multiple births, and elderly parents--time to regulate?
    • Embryos, stem cells, and cloning
    • The ethics of treating impaired babies
    • Can medical research on animals be justified? : the Gennarelli and Taub cases
    • Research on human subjects
    • Surgeons' desire for fame : the ethics of the first heart, hand, and face transplants
    • Allocation of artificial and transplantable organs : the God Committee and live donors
    • Using one baby for another : babies Fae, Gabriel, and Theresa, and conjoined twins
    • Involuntary psychiatric commitment : the case of Joyce Brown
    • Testing in advance for genetic disease
    • Preventing the global spread of Aids
    • Medicine and inequality
    • David Reimer : the "John/Joan case"
    • Ethical theories and bioethics.
    ISBN
    • 9780073407494 (alk. paper)
    • 0073407496 (alk. paper)
    LCCN
    2010002490
    OCLC
    501512420
    RCP
    C - S
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