Bioethics, Health Care, and the Law: A Dictionary

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ISBN: 9780874367614 | 0874367611
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 12/1/1999

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A comprehensive introduction to the vocabulary and definitions of the terms involved in the health care and bioethics debate.

Preface	p. XI
Introduction	p. 1
Bioethics, Health Care, and the Law	p. 1
Abandonment	p. 11
Abortifacient	p. 13
Abortion	p. 14
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome	p. 17
Adoption and Biological Parents' Rights	p. 22
Advance Directives	p. 22
American Bar Association Health Law Section	p. 23
American Civil Liberties Union	p. 24
American Hospital Association	p. 24
American Medical Association	p. 27
American Nurses Association	p. 29
American Osteopathic Association	p. 31
American Society of Law, Medicine, and Ethics	p. 33
Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990	p. 33
Amniocentesis	p. 35
Anatomical Gifts	p. 36
Anencephaly	p. 36
Animal Experimentation	p. 38
Animal Rights	p. 38
Artificial Insemination	p. 39
Artificial Nutrition	p. 42
Autonomy, Principle of	p. 44
Autopsy	p. 45
Beneficence, Principle of	p. 47
Best Interests of Child Standard	p. 48
Bioethics	p. 51
Biomedicine	p. 51
Biotechnology	p. 51
Birth	p. 52
Blood Transfusion	p. 53
Bouvia, Elizabeth	p. 54
Breast Implants	p. 56
Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation	p. 57
Child Protective Laws	p. 58
Choice in Dying	p. 60
Choice of Evils Defense	p. 60
Christian Science, Church of	p. 61
Civil Rights Act of 1964	p. 61
Coma	p. 62
Commercial Surrogacy	p. 63
Competency	p. 64
Confidentiality	p. 65
Conjoined Twins	p. 66
Consent (Informed)	p. 67
Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act	p. 69
Contraception	p. 69
Cost Containment	p. 74
Cruzan v. Director, Missouri Department of Health	p. 76
Death	p. 79
Deontological Theory	p. 80
Do Not Resuscitate Orders	p. 82
Due Process (Constitutional)	p. 83
Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care	p. 83
Duty	p. 85
Dying Person's Bill of Rights	p. 85
Embryo Custody	p. 87
Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act	p. 87
Equal Protection of the Laws (Constitutional)	p. 88
Ethics	p. 89
Ethics Committees	p. 90
Eugenics	p. 91
Euthanasia	p. 92
Extraordinary Medical Intervention	p. 95
Faith Healing	p. 97
Federal Tort Claims Act	p. 98
Fetal Reduction	p. 99
Fetal Rights	p. 100
Food and Drug Administration	p. 102
Gene Therapy	p. 107
Genetic Screening	p. 108
Good Samaritan Act	p. 108
Health	p. 111
Health Insurance	p. 112
Health Maintenance Organization	p. 114
Health Maintenance Organization Act of 1974	p. 115
Hemlock Society	p. 116
Hippocratic Oath	p. 116
Human Genome Project	p. 118
Iatrogenic Disorders	p. 119
In Vitro Fertilization	p. 119
Incompetent Patients	p. 120
Informed Consent	p. 121
Insanity	p. 121
Institutional Review Boards	p. 123
Integrated Health System	p. 124
Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations	p. 125
Justice	p. 126
Kevorkian, Jack	p. 129
Life	p. 131
Life Support Systems	p. 132
Live Donors	p. 133
Living Will	p. 134
Malpractice, Medical	p. 137
Managed Care	p. 139
Maternal Rights	p. 142
Mature Minor Doctrine	p. 144
Medicaid/Title XIX	p. 144
Medical Savings Accounts	p. 147
Medicare	p. 148
Medicare A--Inpatient Insurance	p. 151
Medicare B--Physician and Outpatient Services	p. 154
Medicare C	p. 156
Medicare Prospective Payment System	p. 156
Milgram, Stanley	p. 159
Minors and Capacity	p. 160
Moral Hazard	p. 160
Natural Death Acts	p. 163
Negative Medical Outcome	p. 163
Negligence	p. 163
No Duty Rule	p. 167
Noncompliant Patient	p. 167
Nonmaleficence, Principle of	p. 168
Nuremberg Code	p. 170
Nutrition and Hydration	p. 171
Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act	p. 173
Oregon's Death with Dignity Act	p. 173
Organ and Tissue Donation	p. 174
Palliative Care	p. 177
Parens Patriae Authority	p. 178
Parental Rights	p. 179
Patient Dumping	p. 179
Patient Self-Determination Act	p. 180
Patient's Bill of Rights	p. 180
Persistent Vegetative State	p. 180
Physician-Assisted Suicide	p. 181
Physician-Patient Relationship	p. 182
Placebo	p. 185
Products Liability	p. 185
Prospective Payment System	p. 187
Quality of Life	p. 189
Quinlan, Karen Ann	p. 189
Radiation Experiments	p. 191
Rationing of Health Care	p. 191
Rehabilitation Act of 1973	p. 192
Religion	p. 193
Right to Health Care	p. 194
Risk	p. 194
Standard Precautions	p. 197
Standards of Proof	p. 197
Sterilization	p. 198
Substitute Judgment Rule	p. 199
Suicide	p. 199
Surrogate Mothering	p. 199
Terminal Illness	p. 201
Thrombolytic Therapy	p. 201
Transgenics	p. 201
Transsexualism	p. 202
Tuskegee Syphilis Studies	p. 203
Uniform Rights of Terminally Ill Act	p. 205
Utilitarianism, Theory of	p. 206
Xenotransplantation	p. 209
Sample Living Will	p. 211
For Further Reading	p. 215
Table of Cases	p. 219
Index	p. 221
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Bioethics, Health Care, and the Law: A Dictionary

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