Taking sides
Subtitle: clashing views on bioethical issues
By: selected, edited, and with introductions by Carol Levine.
Contributors: Levine, Carol.
Edition: 12th ed.
Series: McGraw-Hill contemporary learning series
Publisher: McGraw Hill; McGraw-Hill/Dushkin
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Dubuque, IA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 360
Subjects: Medical ethics; Bioethics
Other titles: Clashing views on bioethical issues
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Is informed consent still central to medical ethics?; title: Should truth-telling depend on the patient's culture?; title: Does direct-to-consumer drug advertising enhance patient choice?; title: Do some advance directives limit patients' rights?; title: Do standard medical ethics apply in disaster conditions?; title: Should physicians be allowed to assist in patient suicide?; title: Should doctors be able to refuse demands for "futile" treatment?; title: Is abortion immoral?; title: Should a pregnant woman be punished for exposing her fetus to risk?; title: Should adolescents be allowed to make their own life-and-death decisions?; title: Do parents harm their children when they refuse medical treatment on religions [sic] grounds?; title: Is the ban on federal funding of human stem cell research justifiable?; title: Is genetic enhancement an unacceptable use of technology?; title: Should animal experimentation be permitted?; title: Should prisoners be allowed to participate in research?; title: Should federally funded health care be tied to following doctors' orders?; title: Dies military necessity override medical ethics?; title: Should performance-enhancing drugs be banned from sports?; title: Should there be a free market in body parts?; title: Should pharmacists be allowed to deny prescriptions on grounds of conscience?; title: Should public health override powers over individual liberty in combatting bioterrorism?