Ending and extending life
By: Peter Faguy and Miriam Boleyn-Fitzgerald.
Contributors: Boleyn-Fitzgerald, Miriam.
Series: Contemporary Issues in Science
Publisher: Facts On File
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780816062058
Subjects: Medical ethics; Medical innovations -- Moral and ethical aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Ethical principles in medical research; title: The Tuskegee syphilis study; title: Ethical principles: Nuremberg to Belmont; title: Institutional review boards; title: The HIV vertical transmission trials; title: Vulnerable populations; title: Research with children: the Willowbrook hepatitis study; title: Protections for children; title: The Kennedy Krieger Institute lead-paint study; title: Lead-based paint in homes; title: Research with emergency room patients: Ebb Cade and the plutonium injections; title: Protections for emergency room patients; title: Polyheme: the synthetic blood trial; title: Summary; title: Research with animals; title: Ethical positions on animal research; title: Oncomouse; title: Harry Harlow and attachment theory; title: Protections for animal subjects; title: Xenotransplantation; title: When life ends; title: Karen Quinlan; title: Defining death; title: Extend life or hasten death?; title: Theresa Schiavo; title: Living wills and medical proxies; title: Summary; title: Life-extending technology; title: The mechanical ventilator; title: Tamoxifen: the first chemopreventative drug for cancer; title: Tube feeding; title: Neuroimaging; title: Organ transplants; title: Life extension, aging, and palliative care; title: The science of life extension; title: Ethical positions on extending the human life span; title: Life expectancy at the start of the 21st century; title: The growing global burden of chronic disease; title: Long-term care; title: Hospice and palliative care; title: Summary; title: New technology and the cost of treatment; title: The rising costs of health care; title: Health care coverage in the United States; title: Costs of new technology; title: The HIV/AIDS pandemic: disparities in distribution of care; title: U.S. funding for HIV treatment and prevention; title: Health, disease, and wellness; title: Defining health and disease; title: Contemporary debates: what is fair, and what counts as treatment?; title: Drugs to treat childhood behavior.