Health care ethics : critical issues / [edited by] John F. Monagle, David C. Thomasma.
| Other author | Monagle, John F. |
| Other author | Thomasma, David C., 1939- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Gaithersburg, Md. : Aspen Publishers, 1994. |
| Description | xix, 447 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Genetics, reproduction and neonatology -- Human genome research and the responsible use of new genetic knowledge -- Human genome initiative and primary care -- Genetics and the problem of harm -- Ethics in reproductive genetics -- Reproductive freedom: its nature, bases and limits -- Frozen embryos and questions of implantation -- Abortion: the unexplored middle ground -- Social and ethical issues in the prenatal diagnosis of fetal disorders -- Prenatal screening for maternal drug use -- Issues in adult medicine -- Patient self-determination act -- Patient concerns about advance directives -- Advance directives: panacea for safeguarding patient autonomy or a convenient way of avoiding responsibility? |
| Contents | (cont) Ethics and brain chemistry -- Plight of the deistitutionalized chronic schizophrenic: ethical considerations -- Bioethical dilemmas in emergency medicine and prehospital care -- Social systems and professional responsibility -- Long-term care for older people: moral and political challenges of access -- Treating senility and dementia: ethical challenges and quality-of-life judgments -- Autonomy of the elderly living in nursing homes -- Ethical pitfalls and benefits of disclosure of HIV-positive status -- How AIDS activists are changing research -- End of life, assisted suicide and euthanasia -- Advance directives in the 1990s: medical care of the dying and the myth of sisyphus -- Ethical issues in the use of fluids and nutrition: when can they be withdrawn? -- Withholding CPR as futile therapy. |
| Contents | (cont) Medical futility -- Problem with futility -- When patients or families demand too much -- Care of the hopelessly ill: proposed clinical criteria for physician-assisted suicide -- Euthanasia: the way we do it, the way they do it -- Doing the good thing? Psychological reflections on self-determination and dying -- National issues in health care -- Practicing medicine, fiduciary trust privacy, and public moral interloping after Cruzan -- Distributive justice: must we say yes when society says no? -- Equality and inequality in American health care -- Tarasoff and the moral duty to protect the vulnerable -- Beneficience, scientific autonomy and self-interest: ethical dilemmas in clinical research -- Ethics of health care as a business. |
| Contents | (cont) Ethics of medical entrepreneurship -- Institutional and relationship issues -- Educating ethics committee members: programs and networking -- Health care institutional ethics: broader than clinical ethics -- Relationships in health care revisited -- Technology, older persons and the doctor-patient relationship -- Methodology: old and new approaches -- Getting down to cases: the revival of casuistry in bioethics -- Discovering challenges to ethical theory in experience-based narratives of nurses' everyday ethical comportment -- Ethical issues in pharmacy: questions without answers -- Bioethics as social problem solving -- Ethically responsible creativity: friendship of an understanding heart: a cognitively affective model for bioethical decision making. |
| General note | Contains original and previously published articles. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 93034320 |
| ISBN | 083420505X : |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Laupus | Books - Stacks | W 50 H434 1994 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |