Biomedical Ethics

Glannon (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

192 Seiten

2004
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-514431-4 (ISBN)

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Presents ethical questions and arguments in six areas of biomedicine such as the patient-doctor relationship and genetics. Topics covered include issues such as doctors' duties to patients, and issues in scientific innovation such as cloning. This book is useful for courses in moral problems, introduction to ethics, and introduction to bioethics.

Biomedical Ethics is a brief philosophical introduction to the most important ethical questions and arguments in six areas of biomedicine: the patient-doctor relationship; medical research on humans; reproductive rights and technologies; genetics; medical decisions at the end of life; and the allocation of scarce medical resources. The topics cover both perennial ethical issues in medicine, such as doctors' duties to patients, and recent and emerging ethical issues in scientific innovation, such as gene therapy and cloning. The scope of the book captures the historical, contemporary, and future-oriented flavor of these areas in a concise and accessible way, and is ideal for courses in contemporary moral problems, introduction to ethics, and introduction to bioethics.

Walter Glannon is Canada Research Chair in Medical Bioethics and Ethical Theory at the University of Calgary, where he is Associate Professor in the Departments of Philosophy and Community Health Sciences.

Each chapter opens with an Introduction and ends with a Conclusion and Selected Readings.
Preface:
1. History and Theories
The Need for Theories
Consequentialism and Deontology
Virtue Ethics and Feminist Ethics
Communitarianism and Liberalism
The Rejection of Theories: Casuistry and Cultural Relativism
2. The Patient-Doctor Relationship
Informed Consent
Therapeutic Privilege
Confidentiality
Cross-Cultural Relations
What Sort of Doctors Do We Need?
3. Medical Research on Humans
Design of Clinical Trials
Equipoise, Randomization, and Placebos
Problems with Consent
Vulnerable Populations
Protections and Justice
4. Reproductive Rights and Technologies
Abortion
The Moral Status of Embryos
Surrogate Pregnancy
Sex Selection
Cloning
5. Genetics
Genetic Testing and Screening
Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis
Gene Therapy
Genetic Enhancement
Eugenics
6. Medical Decisions at the End of Life
Defining Death
Withdrawing and Withholding Treatment
Double Effect
Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide
Futility
7. Allocating Scarce Medical Resources
Setting Priorities
Quality-Adjusted Life-Years
Age-Based Rationing
Organ Transplantation
Two-Tiered Health Care
Index:

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.9.2004
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Gewicht	265 g
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Medizinethik
Themenwelt	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
ISBN-10	0-19-514431-7 / 0195144317
ISBN-13	978-0-19-514431-4 / 9780195144314
Zustand	Neuware