Classic cases in medical ethics :
Pence, Gregory E
Classic cases in medical ethics : accounts of the cases that have shaped and define medical ethics / Gregory Pence - 5th ed - New York : McGraw-Hill Higher Education, c2008 - xxiii, 365 p. ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references (p. N-1-N-26) and indexes
Requests to die: Elizabeth Bouvia and Larry McAfee -- Comas: Karen Quinlan, Nancy Cruzan & Teri Schiavo -- Physician-assisted dying: Oregon's legalization -- Abortion: the trial of Kenneth Edelin -- Assisted reproduction: Louise Brown and beyond -- Battles over stem cells and embryos -- Reproductive cloning -- Letting impaired newborns die: the baby Doe cases -- Ethical theories in medical ethics -- Animal subjects: the Philadelphia primate study -- human subjects: the Tuskegee syphilis study -- Desires to be first: hand, heart, & face transplants: artificial hearts and separating conjoined twins -- The God committee: problems of just allocation of organs -- Using one baby to help another: baby Fae and baby Theresa -- Involuntary psychiatric commitment: Joyce Brown -- Ethical issues and genetic diseases: the challenge of diabetes -- Preventing the global spread of AIDS -- Ethics & financing medicine: Americare
9780073535739 (alk. paper) 0073535737 (alk. paper)
2007012849
Medical ethics--Case studies
Bioethical Issues
Ethics, Medical--history
Ethics, Clinical--history
History, 20th Century
Patient Rights--legislation & jurisprudence
Social Justice--ethics
United States
R724 / .P36 2008
174.2
2008 L-569 W 50 / P397c 2008
Classic cases in medical ethics : accounts of the cases that have shaped and define medical ethics / Gregory Pence - 5th ed - New York : McGraw-Hill Higher Education, c2008 - xxiii, 365 p. ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references (p. N-1-N-26) and indexes
Requests to die: Elizabeth Bouvia and Larry McAfee -- Comas: Karen Quinlan, Nancy Cruzan & Teri Schiavo -- Physician-assisted dying: Oregon's legalization -- Abortion: the trial of Kenneth Edelin -- Assisted reproduction: Louise Brown and beyond -- Battles over stem cells and embryos -- Reproductive cloning -- Letting impaired newborns die: the baby Doe cases -- Ethical theories in medical ethics -- Animal subjects: the Philadelphia primate study -- human subjects: the Tuskegee syphilis study -- Desires to be first: hand, heart, & face transplants: artificial hearts and separating conjoined twins -- The God committee: problems of just allocation of organs -- Using one baby to help another: baby Fae and baby Theresa -- Involuntary psychiatric commitment: Joyce Brown -- Ethical issues and genetic diseases: the challenge of diabetes -- Preventing the global spread of AIDS -- Ethics & financing medicine: Americare
9780073535739 (alk. paper) 0073535737 (alk. paper)
2007012849
Medical ethics--Case studies
Bioethical Issues
Ethics, Medical--history
Ethics, Clinical--history
History, 20th Century
Patient Rights--legislation & jurisprudence
Social Justice--ethics
United States
R724 / .P36 2008
174.2
2008 L-569 W 50 / P397c 2008