Title: Ethics and law in modern medicine : hypothetical case studies /
Authors: Vukadinovich, David M.; Krinsky, Susan L.
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers,
Year: 2001
Subjects: Legislation, Medical; Delivery of Health Care legislation & jurisprudence; Ethics, Clinical; Medical ethics Decision making.; Life and death, Power over Decision making.; Clinical medicine Decision making; Decision making Moral and ethical aspects; United States
Contents: Ch. 1. Health care professionals and HIV: the duty to warn -- Ch. 2. Emergency care and HIV: treatment policy and practice -- Ch. 3. A revolutionary policy? mandatory disclosure of HIV serostatus -- Ch. 4. Minors and health care: the limits of consent and confidentiality -- Ch. 5. The rights to refuse and demand medical treatment: the bounds of autonomy and futility -- Ch. 6. Religious freedom and the right to refuse care: what are the limits? -- Ch. 7. Assisted reproductive technology: the business of making babies -- Ch. 8. Twins and transplants: choosing who lives -- Ch. 9. Free abortion services and fetal tissue research: freedom of choice and coercion -- Ch. 10. Property rights, body parts, and reproduction: who owns the human body? -- Ch. 11. Outbreak in America: the policy of public verses private interests.