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Am I my brother's keeper? : the ethical frontiers of biomedicine / Arthur L. Caplan.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Medical ethics seriesPublication details: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, �1997.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 241 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585319197
  • 9780585319193
  • 1282079301
  • 9781282079304
  • 9786612079306
  • 6612079304
  • 0253113741
  • 9780253113740
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Am I my brother's keeper?.DDC classification:
  • 174/.2 21
LOC classification:
  • R724 .C337 1997eb
NLM classification:
  • 1998 F-505
  • W 50
Online resources:
Contents:
pt. 1. Research, experimentation, and innovation: And baby makes--moral muddles -- The intrusion of evil, the use of data from unethical medical experiments -- Have a heart? The ethical lessons of the development of the total artificial heart -- "What a long, strange trip it's been," the debate over the use of fetal tissue for transplantation research -- pt. 2. Starting and stopping medical treatment for the very young and very old: Hard cases make bad law, the legacy of the Baby Doe controversy -- Analogies to the Holocaust and contemporary bioethical disputes about assisted suicide and euthanasia --Will Dr. Kevorkian kill hospice? -- Odds and ends -- No sale: markets, organs, and tissues -- Is the use of animal organs for transplants immoral? -- Am I my brother's keeper? Ethics and the use of living donors -- pt. 4. Health policy: Dead as a doornail -- sinners, saints, and access to health care -- The ethics of gatekeepers -- pt. 5. What is your doctor trying to do to you? Who says you're sick? -- Curing what ails the medical model -- If gene therapyis the cure, what's the disease? -- What's wrong with eugenics? -- Do not copy without permission.
Summary: The author discusses "some of the most pressing issues in medical ethics today--including doctor-assisted suicide, gene therapy, fetal research, access to health care," and cloning.--Jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-235) and index.

Print version record.

pt. 1. Research, experimentation, and innovation: And baby makes--moral muddles -- The intrusion of evil, the use of data from unethical medical experiments -- Have a heart? The ethical lessons of the development of the total artificial heart -- "What a long, strange trip it's been," the debate over the use of fetal tissue for transplantation research -- pt. 2. Starting and stopping medical treatment for the very young and very old: Hard cases make bad law, the legacy of the Baby Doe controversy -- Analogies to the Holocaust and contemporary bioethical disputes about assisted suicide and euthanasia --Will Dr. Kevorkian kill hospice? -- Odds and ends -- No sale: markets, organs, and tissues -- Is the use of animal organs for transplants immoral? -- Am I my brother's keeper? Ethics and the use of living donors -- pt. 4. Health policy: Dead as a doornail -- sinners, saints, and access to health care -- The ethics of gatekeepers -- pt. 5. What is your doctor trying to do to you? Who says you're sick? -- Curing what ails the medical model -- If gene therapyis the cure, what's the disease? -- What's wrong with eugenics? -- Do not copy without permission.

The author discusses "some of the most pressing issues in medical ethics today--including doctor-assisted suicide, gene therapy, fetal research, access to health care," and cloning.--Jacket.

English.

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