Medical Ethics

Fourteen leading authorities in their respective fields provide the most comprehensive and current survey of issues in medical ethics ever written. Each author is given the opportunity to write a chapter surveying a critical issue in one of the major subject areas in medical ethics. Within each chapter, the author develops a discussion of the critical concepts, arguments and positions in a particular facet of medical ethics, without arguing for one position or another. Since the first edition of Medical Ethics in 1989, important changes have occurred that affect every chapter in this book. To address these changes, Robert Veatch has asked the original contributors to address the developments of the past six years. Additionally, Ronald Bayer has contributed a new chapter on AIDS and ethics. Norman Daniels, former member of the ethics advisory group for President Clinton's Health Care Task Force, provides a framework for understanding the ethical dimension of the health care policy debate. This collection of readings is a valuable resource for participants in the current debate, practitioners and students of medical ethics.