Medical ethics and the law
Subtitle: implications for public policy
By: [compiled by] Marc D. Hiller.
Contributors: Hiller, Marc D.
Publisher: Ballinger Pub. Co.
Published: 1981
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 471
Subjects: Medical ethics.; Medical policy -- United States.; Medical laws and legislation -- United States.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Medical ethics and public policy / Marc D. Hiller; value: Ethical aspects of the right to health care / Robert M. Veatch; value: Ethics and health planning / Michael J. O'Sullivan, Marc D. Hiller; value: Toward social justice / Joseph C. Morreale; value: Social costs of regulation in the health industry / Ralph L. Andreano, Harold R. Wilde; value: National policy in the promotion of health / Lawrence W. Green; value: Computers, health records, and the right to privacy / Marc D. Hiller, Vivian Beyda; value: Truth-telling in medical care / Ronald M. Green; value: Informed consent / Alan Meisel; value: Patient rights and college health / Marc D. Hiller; value: Ethics and administrative practices in long term care / Annabelle L. Kleppick; value: A commitment law for patients, doctors, and lawyers / Loren H. Roth; value: Ethical issues in mental health care / Laurence R. Tancredi, Andrew E. Slaby; value: Policy implications of U.S. population stabilization / Michael E. Kraft; value: Reproductive freedom and the development of population policy / Deborah Oakley; value: Genetic screening and the public well-being / Mark W. Steele; value: Sterilization, issues in conflict / Betty Gonzales, Robert M. Sansoucie; value: Abortion, divisive U.S. public policy / Richard J. Kaufman; value: Ethical dilemmas in covert and deceptive psychological research / Joseph R. Sanders; value: The rights of children involved in research / Rosa Lynn Pinkus, Stephen J. Haines; value: Arguing the morality of genetic engineering / Daniel Callahan.