accounts of the cases and issues that define medical ethics Pence, Gregory E. creator text bibliography nyu New York McGraw-Hill Higher Education c2008 2008 5th ed. monographic eng

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xxiii, 365 p. ; 23 cm. 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. Gregory Pence. Includes bibliographical references (p. N-1-N-26) and indexes. Medical ethics Case studies Bioethical Issues United States Ethics, Medical history United States Ethics, Clinical history United States History, 20th Century United States Patient Rights legislation & jurisprudence United States Social Justice ethics United States R 724 .P36 2008 174/.2 9780073535739 (alk. paper) 0073535737 (alk. paper) 2007012849 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 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 DNLM/DLC 070327 20151125130417.0 14786962