Ethical issues in modern medicine

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Steinbock, Bonnie (-)
Otros Autores: Arras, John, London, Alex John
Formato: Libro
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boston : McGraw-Hill cop. 2003.
Edición:6th ed
Materias:
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part 1. Foundations of the health professional-patient relationship
  • Sect. 1. Autonomy, paternalism, and medical models
  • Sect. 2. Informed consent
  • Sect. 3. Conflicting professional roles and responsibilities
  • Part 2. Allocation, social justice, and health policy
  • Sect. 1. Justice and health care
  • Sect. 2. Methods and strategies for rationing health care
  • Sect. 3. Equality and the ends of medicine
  • Part 3. Defining death, forgoing life-sustaining treatment, and euthanasia
  • Sect. 1. The definition of death
  • Sect. 2. Decisional capacity and the right to refuse treatment
  • Sect. 3. Advance directives
  • Sect. 4. Choosing for others
  • Sect. 5. Euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide
  • Part 4. Reprogenetics
  • Sect. 1. The morality of abortion
  • Sect. 2. Carrier screening, prenatal testing, and reproductive decisions
  • Sect. 3. Mapping the human genome: implications for genetic testing, genetic counseling, and genetic interventions
  • Sect. 4. Assisted reproductive technologies
  • Sect. 5. Human cloning and stem cell research
  • Part 5. Experimentation on human subjects
  • Sect. 1. Born in scandal: the origins of U.S. research ethics
  • Sect. 2. The ethics of randomized clinical trials
  • Sect. 3. Ethical issues in international research
  • -- Sect. 4. Research on children and other "vulnerable" populations.