Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
A collection of readings on topics such as abortion, organ transplantation, and HIV. Valuable for practitioners, and students of medical ethics.
Table of Contents
Medical ethics : an introduction / Robert M. Veatch -- The normative principles of medical ethics / James F. Childress -- The concepts of health, illness, and disease / Arthur L. Caplan -- The physician-patient relationship / Howard Brody -- Limiting procreation / Judith Areen -- Human experimentation / A.M. Capron -- Informed consent / Tom L. Beauchamp -- Reproductive technologies and genetics / LeRoy Walters -- Ethical issues in organ transplantation / Albert R. Jonsen -- Moral problems in psychiatry : the role of value judgments in psychiatric practice / Loretta M. Kopelman -- Health-care delivery and resource allocation / Allen Buchanan -- Death and dying / Dan W. Brock -- AIDS and ethics / Ronald Bayer -- National health-care reform / Norman Daniels.