Taking sides
Subtitle: Clashing views on bioethical issues
By: selected, edited, and with introductions by Gregory E. Kaebnick
Edition: Fifteenth edition.
Series: Taking sides; Taking sides
Publisher: Mcgraw-Hill
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 383
ISBN-13: 9780078139499
Subjects: Bioethics; Medical ethics; Bioethical Issues; Medical Ethics
Other titles: Clashing views on bioethical issues; Bioethical issues
Description: This series presents current controversial issues in a debate-style format designed to stimulate student interest and develop critical thinking skills. Each issue is thoughtfully framed with Learning Outcomes, an Issue Summary, an Introduction, and an Exploring the Issue section featuring Critical Thinking and Reflection, Is There Common Ground?, and Additional Resources. Taking Sides readers also offer a Topic Guide and an annotated listing of Internet References for further consideration of the issues. This title is on the topic of bioethical issues.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Is autonomy still central to medical ethics?; title: May surrogate decision makers terminate care for a person in a persistent vegetative state?; title: Should adolescents be allowed to make their own life-and-death decisions?; title: Have advance directives failed?; title: Is palliative sedation ethically different from active euthanasia?; title: Should physicians be allowed to assist in patient suicide?; title: Is abortion immoral?; title: Should there be legal limits on how many embryos can be transferred into a woman who wants to be pregnant?; title: Should a pregnant woman be punished for exposing her fetus to risk?; title: Should physicians be allowed to participate in executions?; title: Should pharmacists be allowed to deny prescriptions on grounds of conscience?; title: Is the use of medical tools to enhance human beings morally troubling?; title: Should performance-enhancing drugs be banned from sports?; title: May doctors offer medical drugs and surgery to stop a disabled child from maturing?; title: Should scientists create artificial organisms?; title: Is an individual mandate to purchase health insurance fair?; title: Is there an ethical duty to provide health care for all immigrants to the United States?; title: Should new drugs be given to patients outside clinical trials?; title: Should vaccination for HPV be mandated for teenage girls?; title: Should there be a market in human organs?