If I Were a Rich Man Could I Buy a Pancreas?

In this book, Arthur L. Caplan, a recent member of the President's Task Force on National Health Care Reform, addresses such important health care issues as organ procurement, in vitro fertilization, the high cost of medical care, and the controversial project to map the human genome. Caplan's lively essays provide an informative survey of the most pressing questions in medical ethnics today.

ARTHUR L. CAPLAN is Director of the Center for Biomedical Ethics and Professor in the Departments of Philosophy and Surgery at the University of Minnesota.

Acknowledgments
Introduction
The nature of applied ethics
Can applied ethics be effective in health care and should it strive to be?	p. 3
Moral experts and moral expertise: Does either exist?	p. 18
Ethical issues in animal and human experimentation
Beastly conduct: ethical issues in animal experimentation	p. 43
Moral community and the responsibility of scientists	p. 59
On privacy and confidentiality in social science research	p. 70
Is there a duty to serve as a subject in biomedical research?	p. 85
Advances in reproduction and genetics
New technologies in reproduction--new ethical problems	p. 103
Mapping morality: ethics and the human genome project	p. 118
Transplants and other unnatural acts
Requests, gifts, and obligations: the ethics of organ procurement	p. 145
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	p. 158
Ethical issues raised by research involving xenografts	p. 178
Aging, chronic illness, and rehabilitation
Is aging a disease?	p. 195
Let wisdom find a way: the concept of competency in the care of the elderly	p. 210
Is medical care the right prescription for chronic illness?	p. 221
Informed consent and provider/patient relationships in rehabilitation medicine	p. 240
Can autonomy be saved?	p. 256
Money, medicine, and morality
The high cost of technological development: a caveat for policymakers	p. 285
Hard data is the only answer to hard choices in health care	p. 302
Ethics, cost-containment, and the allocation of scarce resources	p. 315
Index	p. 337
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