Living and Dying Well
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1998
MIT Press (Verlag)
978-0-262-66142-3 (ISBN)
MIT Press (Verlag)
978-0-262-66142-3 (ISBN)
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In the second volume of his trilogy, Lewis Petrinovich presents a detailed account of the dilemmas that humans in technologically advanced societies face when confronted by matters of life and death, and medical treatment.
In the second volume of his trilogy, Petrinovich presents a detailed account of the dilemmas that humans in technologically advanced societies face when confronted by matters of life, death, and medical treatment. The issues he discusses include genetic screening, the Human Genome Project, criteria for defining death, organ donation and transplantation, and assisted suicide and euthanasia. Petrinovich also discusses healthcare policy issues such as the allocation of scarce medical resources and rationing. He argues for adequate health care as a fundamental moral necessity and makes a number of policy recommendations.(Published in cloth by Plenum Press, 1996)
In the second volume of his trilogy, Petrinovich presents a detailed account of the dilemmas that humans in technologically advanced societies face when confronted by matters of life, death, and medical treatment. The issues he discusses include genetic screening, the Human Genome Project, criteria for defining death, organ donation and transplantation, and assisted suicide and euthanasia. Petrinovich also discusses healthcare policy issues such as the allocation of scarce medical resources and rationing. He argues for adequate health care as a fundamental moral necessity and makes a number of policy recommendations.(Published in cloth by Plenum Press, 1996)
Lewis Petrinovich is Professor of Psychology Emeritus at the University of California, Riverside. He is the author of Human Evolution, Reproduction, and Morality and Living and Dying Well (MIT Press, 1998).
Objectives and background principles; genetic screening; the human genome project; death and its criteria; organ transplants; suicide and euthanasia - moral and legal issues; euthanasia - moral and medical issues; medical ethics and hospital review boards; health-care policy - issues; two proposed health-care plans - Oregon rationing and managed competition; problems in achieving health-care reform; a single-payer National Health plan; moral, medical, and financial issues; the great health-care debate.
| Reihe/Serie | Living and Dying Well |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Cambridge, Mass. |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 155 x 226 mm |
| Gewicht | 590 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik |
| Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Medizinethik | |
| Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin | |
| Naturwissenschaften | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-262-66142-X / 026266142X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-262-66142-3 / 9780262661423 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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