Medical ethics
By: Noël Merino, book editor
Series: Current controversies
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780737772210; 9780737772227
Subjects: Medical ethics; JUVENILE NONFICTION / Health & Daily Living / General; JUVENILE NONFICTION / Social Issues / Values & Virtues; Medical Ethics
Description: This collection of articles pro and con on issues in medical ethics debates the ethical principles that should apply to the health-care system, organ transplantation, reproductive technologies, and medical professionals in ending life.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Overview: Americans' approval of healthcare law declines / Jeffrey M. Jones; title: Health care is a right and must be provided to all Americans / Bernie Sanders; title: It is immoral to treat health care as a right / Paul Hsieh; title: Public health insurance programs are immoral and unaffordable / D.W. MacKenzie; title: Public health insurance programs are morally required / Robert B. Reich; title: Conscience exemptions for individuals and businesses are needed / Edmund F. Haislmaier; title: Religious freedom should not allow employers to deny medical care / Marci A. Hamilton; title: Overview: Fairness in dispensing donated organs / Catherine Hollander; title: Presumed consent is the most ethical and effective organ donation system / Stu Strumwasser; title: Cash for kidneys : the case for a market for organs / Gary S. Becker and Julio J. Elias; title: Organ transplants should be rare and not for gain / Miran Epstein; title: The dead-donor rule is ethically central to organ donation / L. Syd M. Johnson; title: The dead-donor rule and the future of organ donation / Robert D. Truog, Franklin G. Miller, and Scott D. Halpern; title: A kidney for a kidney / Sally Satel; title: Condemned prisoners should not be able to donate organs after execution / Wesley J. Smith; title: Overview: Reproductive technologies and social controversy / Anne Kingsley; title: Prenatal genetic screening enhances autonomy / Ronald Bailey; title: "Designer babies" aren't coming. The New York Times is just trying to scare you / Jessica Grose; title: It's time to make paid surrogacy legal in New York / Leslie Morgan Steiner; title: Gattaca at 15 : the dystopian sci-fi thriller is fast becoming our reality / Daniel Allott; title: Three-parent embryos illustrate ethical problems with technologies / Brendan P. Foht; title: Breeding exploitation : the faces of surrogacy / Jennifer Lahl, interviewed by Kathryn Jean Lopez; title: Unethical uses of reproductive technologies / Margaret Somerville; title: Overview: Views on end-of-life medical treatments / Pew Research Center; title: The rights of patients support physician aid in dying / John M. Grohol; title: Should doctors participate in executions? / Ty Alper, interviewed by Rachel Martin; title: It is time to integrate abortion into primary care / Susan Yanow; title: Medical professionals should not have to participate in the taking of life / Wesley J. Smith; title: It is an ethics violation for doctors to perform death penalty executions / Ford Vox; title: Moral disapproval of abortion justifies doctor refusal to provide it / E. Christian Brugger.