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Classic cases in medical ethics : accounts of the cases and issues that define medical ethics / Gregory Pence.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : McGraw-Hill Higher Education, c2008.Edition: 5th edDescription: xxiii, 365 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780073535739 (alk. paper)
  • 0073535737 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 174/.2 22
LOC classification:
  • R 724 .P36 2008
Online resources:
Contents:
Requests to die: Elizabeth Bouvia and Larry McAfee -- Comas: Karen Quinlan, Nancy Cruzan & Teri Schiavo -- Physician-assisted dying: Oregon's legalization -- Abortion: the trial of Kenneth Edelin -- Assisted reproduction: Louise Brown and beyond -- Battles over stem cells and embryos -- Reproductive cloning -- Letting impaired newborns die: the baby Doe cases -- Ethical theories in medical ethics -- Animal subjects: the Philadelphia primate study -- human subjects: the Tuskegee syphilis study -- Desires to be first: hand, heart, & face transplants: artificial hearts and separating conjoined twins -- The God committee: problems of just allocation of organs -- Using one baby to help another: baby Fae and baby Theresa -- Involuntary psychiatric commitment: Joyce Brown -- Ethical issues and genetic diseases: the challenge of diabetes -- Preventing the global spread of AIDS -- Ethics & financing medicine: Americare.
Item type: Books
Holdings
Current library Collection Call number Vol info Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Judith Thomas Library General Stacks BKS R 724 .P36 2008 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) AUA004682 1 Available AUA004682
Judith Thomas Library General Stacks BKS R 724 .P36 2008 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) AUA007224 4 Available AUA007224
Judith Thomas Library General Stacks BKS R 724 .P36 2008 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) AUA008298 2 Available AUA008298
Judith Thomas Library General Stacks BKS R 724 .P36 2008 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) AUA008299 3 Available AUA008299

Includes bibliographical references (p. N-1-N-26) and indexes.

Requests to die: Elizabeth Bouvia and Larry McAfee -- Comas: Karen Quinlan, Nancy Cruzan & Teri Schiavo -- Physician-assisted dying: Oregon's legalization -- Abortion: the trial of Kenneth Edelin -- Assisted reproduction: Louise Brown and beyond -- Battles over stem cells and embryos -- Reproductive cloning -- Letting impaired newborns die: the baby Doe cases -- Ethical theories in medical ethics -- Animal subjects: the Philadelphia primate study -- human subjects: the Tuskegee syphilis study -- Desires to be first: hand, heart, & face transplants: artificial hearts and separating conjoined twins -- The God committee: problems of just allocation of organs -- Using one baby to help another: baby Fae and baby Theresa -- Involuntary psychiatric commitment: Joyce Brown -- Ethical issues and genetic diseases: the challenge of diabetes -- Preventing the global spread of AIDS -- Ethics & financing medicine: Americare.