The Blackwell guide to medical ethics
By: edited by Rosamond Rhodes, Leslie P. Francis, and Anita Silvers
Contributors: Rhodes, Rosamond; Francis, Leslie, 1946-; Silvers, Anita
Series: Blackwell philosophy guides -- 21
Publisher: Blackwell Pub.
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 435
ISBN-13: 9781405125833; 9781405125840
Subjects: Medical ethics
Other titles: Guide to medical ethics; Medical ethics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Autonomy, the good life, and controversial choices / Julian Savulescu; title: Individual responsibility and reproduction / Rachel A. Ankeny; title: Patient and family decisions about life-extension and death / Felicia Nimue Ackerman; title: The professional responsibilities of medicine / Rosamond Rhodes; title: Truth telling / Roger Higgs; title: Medical confidentiality / Kenneth Kipnis; title: Patient competence and surrogate decision making / Dan W. Brock; title: Ending life / F.M. Kamm; title: Discrimination in medical practice : justice and the obligations of health care providers to disadvantaged patients / Leslie P. Francis; title: Institutional practices, ethics, and the physician / Mary V. Rorty, Ann E. Mills, and Patricia H. Werhane; title: Reproductive choice / Rebecca Bennett and John Harris; title: Public policy and ending lives / Evert van Leeuwen and Gerrit Kimsma; title: Drug legalization / Douglas N. Husak; title: Selling organs, gametes, and surrogacy services / Janet Radcliffe Richards; title: The patient as victim and vector : the challenge of infectious disease for bioethics / Margaret P. Battin ... [et al.]; title: Abuses of science in medical ethics / Glenn McGee and Dýrleif Bjarnadóttir; title: Allocation of scarce resources / Paul Menzel; title: Just caring : the challenges of priority-setting in public health / Leonard M. Fleck; title: Justice and the financing of health care / Stephen R. Latham; title: Judgment and justice : evaluating health care for chronically ill and disabled patients / Anita Silvers; title: Justice in research on human subjects / David R. Buchanan and Franklin G. Miller; title: Ethics of disclosure following a medical injury : time for reform? / Troyen Anthony Brennan; title: Pre-existing conditions : genetic testing, causation, and the justice of medical insurance / Robert T. Pennock