The Blackwell Guide to Medical Ethics

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 technology Brings together the leading scholars from a wide range of disciplines, including philosophy, medicine, theology and law, to discuss these issues Tackles such topics as ending life, patient choice, selling body parts, resourcing and confidentiality Organized with a coherent structure that differentiates between the decisions of individuals and those of social policy.

Rosamond Rhodes is Professor of Medical Education and Director of Bioethics Education at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and Professor of Philosophy at The Graduate School, CUNY.

Leslie P. Francis is Professor of Philosophy and the Alfred C. Emery Professor of Law, Adjunct Professor of Political Science at the University of Utah, and Adjunct Professor in the Division of Medical Ethics, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Utah School of Medicine.

Anita Silvers is Professor of Philosophy at San Francisco State University.

Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Individual Decisions About Clinical Issues
Patient Decisions
Autonomy, the Good Life and Controversial Choices
Individual Responsibility and Reproduction
Patient and Family Decisions about Life-Extension and Death
Individual Decisions of Physicians and Other Health Care Professionals
The Professional Responsibilities of Medicine
Truth telling
Medical Confidentiality
Patient Competence and Surrogate Decision-Making
Ending Life
Discrimination in Medical Practice: Justice and the Obligations of Health Care Providers to Disadvantaged Patients
Institutional Practices, Ethics, and the Physician
Legislative and Judicial Decisions About Social Policy
Liberty
Reproductive Choice
Public Policy and Ending Lives
Drug Legalization
Selling Organs, Gametes, and Surrogacy Services
The Patient as Victim and Vector: The Challenge of Infectious Disease for Bioethics
Uses of Science in Medical Ethics
Justice
Allocation of Scarce Resources
Just Caring: The Challenges of Priority-Setting in Public Health
Justice and the Financing of Health Care
Judgment and Justice: Evaluating Health Care for Chronically Ill and Disabled Patients
Justice in Research on Human Subjects
Ethics of Disclosure Following a Medical Injury: Time for Reform?
Pre-existing Conditions: Genetic Testing, Causation and the Justice of Medical Insurance
Index
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The Blackwell Guide to Medical Ethics

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