Bioethics : an introduction to the history, methods, and practice / [edited by] Nancy S. Jecker, Albert R. Jonsen, Robert A. Pearlman.

Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
2nd ed.
Published/​Created
Sudbury, Mass. : Jones and Bartlett Publishers, [2007], ©2007.
Description
xi, 545 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

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    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • A history of bioethics as discipline and discourse / Albert R. Jonsen
    • Bioethics as a discipline / Daniel Callahan
    • The new biology : what price relieving man's estate? / Leon R. Kass
    • How medicine saved the life of ethics / Stephen Toulmin
    • Who shall live when not all can live? / James E. Childress
    • Philosophical reflections on experimenting with human subjects / Hans Jonas
    • The heart transplant : ethical dilemmas / Kenneth Vaux
    • To save or let die : the dilemma of modern medicine / Richard A. McCormick
    • Active and passive euthanasia / James Rachels
    • In the matter of Karen Quinlan / The Supreme Court, State of New Jersey
    • Medical morality is not bioethics : medical ethics in China and the United States / Renee C. Fox and Judith P. Swazey
    • Methods of ethical reasoning : philosophical, clinical, and cultural dimensions / Nancy S. Jecker
    • A defense of ethical relativism / Ruth Benedict
    • The challenge of ethical relativism / James Rachels
    • Equality and its implications / Peter Singer
    • Kantian ethics / Fred Feldman
    • Principles of biomedical ethics (selection) / Tom L. Beauchamp and James F. Childress
    • A critique of principlism / K. Danner Clouser and Bernard Gert
    • Feminism and moral theory / Virginia Held
    • The four topics : case analysis in clinical ethics / Albert R. Jonsen, Mark Siegler and William Winslade
    • Casuistry and clinical ethics / Albert R. Jonsen
    • Getting down to cases : the revival of casuistry in bioethics / John Arras
    • Feminist and medical ethics : two different approaches to contextual ethics / Susan Sherwin
    • Doctors' stories (selection) / Kathryn M. Hunter
    • Narrative and medicine / Rita Charon
    • Nice story, but so what? : narrative and justification in ethics / John Arras
    • Hospital ethics committees : is there a role? / Robert M. Veatch
    • The inner workings of an ethics committee : latest battle over Jehovah's Witnesses / Ruth Macklin
    • Behind closed doors : promises and pitfalls of ethics committees / Bernard Lo
    • Ethics consultation : skills, roles, and training / John La Puma and David L. Schiedermayer
    • Facilitating medical ethics case review : what ethics committees can learn from mediation and facilitation techniques / Mary Beth West and Joan McIver Gibson
    • Ethics consultation in U.S. hospitals : a national survey / Ellen Fox, Sarah Myers and Robert A. Pearlman
    • Yes, there are African-American perspectives in bioethics / Annette Dula
    • Gender, race, and class in the delivery of health care / Susan Sherwin
    • New malaise : bioethics and human rights in the global era / Paul Farmer and Nicole Gastineau Campos
    • Introduction to the practice of bioethics / Robert A. Pearlman
    • Roe v. Wade : majority opinion and dissent / United States Supreme Court
    • A defense of abortion / Judith Jarvis Thomson
    • Why abortion is immoral / Don Marquis
    • Assisted reproduction / Presidents Council on Bioethics
    • The presumptive primacy of procreative liberty / John Robertson
    • Feminist ethics and in vitro fertilization / Susan Sherwin
    • Genetics and reproductive risk : can having children be immoral? / Laura M. Purdy
    • Reproductive freedom and the prevention of harm / Allen Buchanan, Dan W. Brock, Norman Daniels and Daniel Wilder
    • The Terri Schiavo case : legal, ethical, and medical perspectives / Joshua E. Perry, Larry R. Churchill and Howard S. Kirshner
    • Medical futility : its meaning and ethical implications / Lawrence J. Schneiderman, Nancy S. Jecker and Albert R. Jonsen
    • Nutrition and hydration : moral and pastoral reflections / U.S. Bishops' Pro-Lift Committee
    • Natural Death Act / The State of California
    • Integrating preferences for life-sustaining treatments and health states ratings into meaningful advance care discussions / Robert A. Pearlman, Helene Starks, Kevin C. Cain, William G. Cole, Donald L. Patrick and Richard F. Uhlmann
    • Enough : the failure of the living will / Angela Fagerlin and Carl E. Schneider
    • Eighth annual report on Oregon's Death with Dignity Act / Oregon Department of Human Services
    • Attitudes toward assisted suicide and euthanasia among physicians in Washington state / Jonathan S. Cohen, Stephan D. Fihn, Edward J. Boyko, Albert R. Jonsen and Robert W. Wood
    • Death and dignity : a case of individualized decision making / Timothy E. Quill
    • The philosopher's brief / Ronald Dworkin, Thomas Nagel, Robert Nozick, John Rawls, Thomas Scanlon and Judith Jarvis Thomson
    • Western bioethics on the Navajo reservation : benefit or harm? / Joseph A. Carrese and Lorna A. Rhodes
    • Communication through interpreters in healthcare : ethical dilemmas arising from differences in class, culture, language, and power / Joseph M. Kaufert and Robert W. Putsch.
    ISBN
    • 9780763743147 (pbk. : alk. paper)
    • 0763743143 (pbk. : alk. paper)
    LCCN
    2006039553
    OCLC
    76864320
    RCP
    C - S
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