The Blackwell Guide to Medical Ethics (Blackwell Philosophy Guides)

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. Autonomy, the good life, and controversial choices / Julian Savulescu Individual responsibility and reproduction / Rachel A. Ankeny Patient and family decisions about life-extension and death / Felicia Nimue Ackerman The professional responsibilities of medicine / Rosamond Rhodes Truth telling / Roger Higgs Medical confidentiality / Kenneth Kipnis Patient competence and surrogate decision making / Dan W. Brock Ending life / F.M. Kamm Discrimination in medical practice : justice and the obligations of health care providers to disadvantaged patients / Leslie P. Francis Institutional practices, ethics, and the physician / Mary V. Rorty, Ann E. Mills, and Patricia H. Werhane Reproductive choice / Rebecca Bennett and John Harris Public policy and ending lives / Evert van Leeuwen and Gerrit Kimsma Drug legalization / Douglas N. Husak Selling organs, gametes, and surrogacy services / Janet Radcliffe Richards The patient as victim and vector : the challenge of infectious disease for bioethics / Margaret P. Battin ... [et al.] Abuses of science in medical ethics / Glenn McGee and Dýrleif Bjarnadóttir Allocation of scarce resources / Paul Menzel Just caring : the challenges of priority-setting in public health / Leonard M. Fleck Justice and the financing of health care / Stephen R. Latham Judgment and justice : evaluating health care for chronically ill and disabled patients / Anita Silvers Justice in research on human subjects / David R. Buchanan and Franklin G. Miller Ethics of disclosure following a medical injury : time for reform? / Troyen Anthony Brennan Pre-existing conditions : genetic testing, causation, and the justice of medical insurance / Robert T. Pennock Employing crucial distinctions between the personal decisions of patients, the professional decisions of individual health care providers and political decisions about public policy. This book is an indispensable reference for anyone who wants to understand the field today and grapple with the challenges and controversies it presents Bringing together the leading scholars from a wide range of disciplines, including philosophy, medicine, theology and law, this title examines the key ethical issues and debates which have resulted from the rapid advances in biomedical technology The Blackwell Guide to Medical Ethics is a collection of new essays from acknowledged leaders in the field, designed to guide students through the complexities of the current state of ethics in medicine