The Blackwell Guide to Medical Ethics is a guide to the complex literature written on the increasingly dense topic of ethics in relation to the new technologies of medicine.
- Examines the key ethical issues and debates which have resulted from the rapid advances in biomedical technology
- Brings together the leading scholars from a wide range of disciplines, including philosophy, medicine, theology and law, to discuss these issues
- Tackles such topics as ending life, patient choice, selling body parts, resourcing and confidentiality
- Organized with a coherent structure that differentiates between the decisions of individuals and those of social policy.
Notes on Contributors.
Introduction: Rosamond Rhodes (Mount Sinai School of Medicine), Leslie P. Francis (University of Utah) and Anita Silvers (San Francisco State University).
Part I: Individual Decisions About Clinical Issues.
I.1: Patient Decisions.
1. Autonomy, the Good Life and Controversial Choices: Julian Savulescu (University of Oxford).
2. Individual Responsibility and Reproduction: Rachel A. Ankeny (University of Sydney).
3. Patient and Family Decisions about Life-Extension and Death: Felicia Nimue Ackerman (Brown University).
I.2: Individual Decisions of Physicians and Other Health Care Professionals.
4. The Professional Responsibilities of Medicine: Rosamond Rhodes (Mount Sinai School of Medicine).
5. Truth telling: Roger Higgs (Emeritus, King’s College, London).
6. Medical Confidentiality: Kenneth Kipnis (University of Hawaii at Manoa).
7. Patient Competence and Surrogate Decision-Making: Dan W. Brock (Harvard Medical School).
8. Ending Life: l
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