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An edition of Medical ethics (2015)

Medical ethics

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This collection of articles pro and con on issues in medical ethics debates the ethical principles that should apply to the health-care system, organ transplantation, reproductive technologies, and medical professionals in ending life.

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Table of Contents

Overview: Americans' approval of healthcare law declines / Jeffrey M. Jones
Health care is a right and must be provided to all Americans / Bernie Sanders
It is immoral to treat health care as a right / Paul Hsieh
Public health insurance programs are immoral and unaffordable / D.W. MacKenzie
Public health insurance programs are morally required / Robert B. Reich
Conscience exemptions for individuals and businesses are needed / Edmund F. Haislmaier
Religious freedom should not allow employers to deny medical care / Marci A. Hamilton
Overview: Fairness in dispensing donated organs / Catherine Hollander
Presumed consent is the most ethical and effective organ donation system / Stu Strumwasser
Cash for kidneys : the case for a market for organs / Gary S. Becker and Julio J. Elias
Organ transplants should be rare and not for gain / Miran Epstein
The dead-donor rule is ethically central to organ donation / L. Syd M. Johnson
The dead-donor rule and the future of organ donation / Robert D. Truog, Franklin G. Miller, and Scott D. Halpern
A kidney for a kidney / Sally Satel
Condemned prisoners should not be able to donate organs after execution / Wesley J. Smith
Overview: Reproductive technologies and social controversy / Anne Kingsley
Prenatal genetic screening enhances autonomy / Ronald Bailey
"Designer babies" aren't coming. The New York Times is just trying to scare you / Jessica Grose
It's time to make paid surrogacy legal in New York / Leslie Morgan Steiner
Gattaca at 15 : the dystopian sci-fi thriller is fast becoming our reality / Daniel Allott
Three-parent embryos illustrate ethical problems with technologies / Brendan P. Foht
Breeding exploitation : the faces of surrogacy / Jennifer Lahl, interviewed by Kathryn Jean Lopez
Unethical uses of reproductive technologies / Margaret Somerville
Overview: Views on end-of-life medical treatments / Pew Research Center
The rights of patients support physician aid in dying / John M. Grohol
Should doctors participate in executions? / Ty Alper, interviewed by Rachel Martin
It is time to integrate abortion into primary care / Susan Yanow
Medical professionals should not have to participate in the taking of life / Wesley J. Smith
It is an ethics violation for doctors to perform death penalty executions / Ford Vox
Moral disapproval of abortion justifies doctor refusal to provide it / E. Christian Brugger.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Dewey Decimal Class
174.2
Library of Congress
R724 .M292742 2015, R724.M292742 2015

The Physical Object

Pagination
208 pages
Number of pages
208

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Open Library
OL26882950M
Internet Archive
medicalethics0000unse_g7f5
ISBN 10
0737772212, 0737772220
ISBN 13
9780737772210, 9780737772227
LCCN
2014044392
OCLC/WorldCat
885224770

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