Title: Classic cases in medical ethics : accounts of the cases that have shaped and define medical ethics /
Authors: Pence, Gregory E.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Higher Education,
Year: 2008
Subjects: Ethics, Clinical; Ethics, Medical; Social Justice ethics; Patient Rights legislation & jurisprudence; History, 20th Century; Ethics, Clinical history; Ethics, Medical history; Bioethical Issues; Medical ethics Case studies; Bioethical Issues United States.; History, 20th Century United States.; Patient Rights legislation & jurisprudence United States.; Social Justice ethics United States.; United States
Contents: 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.