Pence, Gregory E.

Classsic cases in medical ethics : accounts of cases that have shaped medical ethics, with philosophical, legal, and historical backgrounds / Gregory E. Pence - 4th ed. - Boston, Mass. : McGraw-Hill, c2004. - xviii, 470, [38] p. ; 24 cm.

Preface. - 1. Moral Reasoning and Ethical Theories in Medical Ethics. - Pt. One. Classic Cases About Death and Flying. - 2. omas: Karen quilan and Nancy Cruzan. - 3. equests to Die : Elizabeth Bouvia Class Abortion : Kenneth Edelin. - 6. Assisted reproduction: Louise Brown and Beyond. - 7. Battles over Embryos and Stem Cells. - 8. Reproductive Cloning: Should We Clone Humans? - 9. Letting Impaired Newborns Die: Baby Jane Doe. - Pt. Three. Classic Cases About Re - 10. Animal Subjects : The Philadelphia Head-Injury Study on Primates. - 11. Human Subjects: The Tuskegee Syphilis Study. - 12. Adult Heart Replacement : The First Heart Transplant and Artificial Heart. - 13. Allocation of Artificial and Transplantable Organs : The God Committee. - 14. Infants and Medical Research : Baby Fae and Baby Theresa. - Pt. Four. Classic Cases About Individual Rights and the Public Good. - 15. Involuntary Psychiatric Commitment: Joyce Brown. - 16. Ethical Issu - 17. Preventing the Global spread of Aids. - 18. Reforming the American Medical System : Expanding Medicare? - Notes. - Index.

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Medical ethics--Case studies.

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