If I were a rich man could I buy a pancreas? : and other essays on the ethics of health care /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
©1992.
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| Series: | Medical ethics series
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| Online Access: | http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=23158 |
Table of Contents:
- pt. I: The nature of applied ethics. Can applied ethics be effective in health care and should it strive to be?
- Moral experts and moral expertise : Does either exist?
- pt. II: Ethical issues in animal and human experimentation. Beastly conduct : ethics issues in animal experimentation
- Moral community and the responsibility of scientists
- On privacy and confidentiality in social science research
- Is there a duty to serve as a subject in biomedical research?
- pt. III: Advances in reproduction and genetics. New technologies in reproduction, new ethical problems
- Mapping morality : ethics and the human genome project
- pt. IV: Transplants and other unnatural acts. Requests, gifts, and obligations : the ethics of organ procurement
- If I were a rich man, could I buy a pancreas? : problems in the policies and criteria used to allocate organs for transplantation in the United States
- Ethical issues raised by research involving xenografts
- pt. V: Aging, chronic illness, and rehabilitation. Is aging a disease?
- Let wisdom find a way : the concept of competency in the care of the elderly
- Is medical care the right prescription for chronic illness?
- Informed consent and provider/patient relationships in rehabilitation medicine
- Can autonomy be saved?
- pt. VI: Money, medicine, and morality. The high cost of technological development : a caveat for policymakers
- Hard data is the only answer to hard choices in health care
- Ethics, cost-containment, and the allocation of scarce resources.