The Blackwell guide to medical ethics / / edited by Rosamond Rhodes, Leslie P. Francis, and Anita Silvers

• Pubblicazione: Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., 2007
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (450 p.)
• Disciplina: 174.2
• Soggetto topico: Medical ethics
• Altri autori: RhodesRosamond FrancisLeslie <1946-> SilversAnita
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Autonomy, the good life and controversial choices / Julian Savulescu -- Individual responsibility and reproduction / Rachel A. Ankeny -- Patient and family decisions about life-extension and death / Felicia Nimue Ackerman -- The professional responsibilities of medicine / Rosamond Rhodes -- Truth telling / Roger Higgs -- Medical confidentiality / Kenneth Kipnis -- Patient competence and surrogate decision making / Dan Brock -- Ending life / Frances Myrna Kamm -- Discrimination in medical practice : justice and the obligations of health care providers to disadvantaged patients / Leslie P. Francis -- Institutional practices, ethics, and the physician / Mary V. Rorty, Ann E. Mills, and Patricia H. Werhane -- Reproductive choice / Rebecca Bennett and John Harris -- Public policy and ending lives / Evert van Leeuwen and Gerrit Kimsma -- Drug legalization / Douglas N. Husak -- ; Selling organs, gametes, and surrogacy services / Janet Radcliffe-Richards -- The patient as victim and vector : the challenge of infectious disease for bioethics / Margaret P. Battin ... [et al.] -- Controlling science and technology / Glenn McGee and Dyrleif Bjarnadottir -- Allocation of scarce resources / Paul Menzel -- Just caring : the challenges of priority-setting in public health / Leonard M. Fleck -- Justice and the financing of health care / Stephen R. Latham -- Judgment and justice : evaluating health care for chronically ill and disabled patients / Anita Silvers -- Justice in research on human subjects / David R. Buchanan and Franklin G. Miller -- Community standards, medical mistakes, practice reform & malpractice / Troyen Anthony Brennan -- Pre-existing conditions : genetic testing, causation and the justice of medical insurance / Robert T. Pennock.
• Sommario/riassunto: The Blackwell Guide to Medical Ethics is a guide to the complex literature written on the increasingly dense topic of ethics in relation to the new technologies of medicine.Examines the key ethical issues and debates which have resulted from the rapid advances in biomedical technologyBrings together the leading scholars from a wide range of disciplines, including philosophy, medicine, theology and law, to discuss these issuesTackles such topics as ending life, patient choice, selling body parts, resourcing and confidentialityOrganized with a coherent structure that d
• Altri titoli varianti: Guide to medical ethics
• Titolo autorizzato: The Blackwell guide to medical ethics
• ISBN: 1-78268-739-4; 1-281-31878-7; 1-4051-6559-6; 9786611318789; 0-470-76132-6; 0-470-69093-3; 0-470-68060-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910145296903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Blackwell philosophy guides ; ; 21.