Classic cases in medical ethics
Subtitle: accounts of the cases that have shaped and define medical ethics
By: Gregory Pence.
Edition: 5th ed.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Higher Education
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 365
ISBN-13: 9780073535739
Subjects: Medical ethics -- Case studies; Bioethical Issues -- United States; Ethics, Medical -- history -- United States; Ethics, Clinical -- history -- United States; History, 20th Century -- United States; Patient Rights -- legislation & jurisprudence -- United States; Social Justice -- ethics -- United States
Genres: Case studies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Requests to die: Elizabeth Bouvia and Larry McAfee; title: Comas: Karen Quinlan, Nancy Cruzan & Teri Schiavo; title: Physician-assisted dying: Oregon's legalization; title: Abortion: the trial of Kenneth Edelin; title: Assisted reproduction: Louise Brown and beyond; title: Battles over stem cells and embryos; title: Reproductive cloning; title: Letting impaired newborns die: the baby Doe cases; title: Ethical theories in medical ethics; title: Animal subjects: the Philadelphia primate study; title: human subjects: the Tuskegee syphilis study; title: Desires to be first: hand, heart, & face transplants: artificial hearts and separating conjoined twins; title: The God committee: problems of just allocation of organs; title: Using one baby to help another: baby Fae and baby Theresa; title: Involuntary psychiatric commitment: Joyce Brown; title: Ethical issues and genetic diseases: the challenge of diabetes; title: Preventing the global spread of AIDS; title: Ethics & financing medicine: Americare.