Classic cases in medical ethics : accounts of the cases and issues that define medical ethics /

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Autore principale: Pence, Gregory E.
Natura: Libro
Pubblicazione: New York : McGraw-Hill Higher Education, c2008.
Edizione:5th ed.
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Accesso online:http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0714/2007012849.html
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0713/2007012849-d.html
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0735/2007012849-b.html
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Sommario:
  • Requests to die: Elizabeth Bouvia and Larry McAfee
  • Comas: Karen Quinlan, Nancy Cruzan & Teri Schiavo
  • Physician-assisted dying: Oregon's legalization
  • Abortion: the trial of Kenneth Edelin
  • Assisted reproduction: Louise Brown and beyond
  • Battles over stem cells and embryos
  • Reproductive cloning
  • Letting impaired newborns die: the baby Doe cases
  • Ethical theories in medical ethics
  • Animal subjects: the Philadelphia primate study
  • human subjects: the Tuskegee syphilis study
  • Desires to be first: hand, heart, & face transplants: artificial hearts and separating conjoined twins
  • The God committee: problems of just allocation of organs
  • Using one baby to help another: baby Fae and baby Theresa
  • Involuntary psychiatric commitment: Joyce Brown
  • Ethical issues and genetic diseases: the challenge of diabetes
  • Preventing the global spread of AIDS
  • Ethics & financing medicine: Americare.