Bøger i Medical Ethics serien

An advance medical directive (living will) is a device aimed at controlling medical intervention during the dying process after a patient is no longer competent. This book outlines the legal foundation and framework governing advance directives and considers how such documents should be drafted in light of that legal framework.

A brilliant critique of "medical futility" and the debate over who has the right to cease or refuse medical treatment.

A renowned ethicist explores problem areas in biomedical ethics and shows how principles, metaphors, and analogies interact in practical reasoning.

Offers an overview of the scientific advances that have led to the state of genetic enhancement, and explains how these advances can be used to redefine what we think is a normal human being. This title explores the ethical dilemmas already facing researchers and medical practitioners, and the dilemmas we will all be expected to face.

Develops a comprehensive ethic for the medical treatment of children based on extensive observation and interviews in pediatric care settings

Discussions of managed care frequently begin and end with an opposition between the Hippocratic ethic of dedication to patient welfare and a business ethic of self-interest in the service of efficiency. In this book, the author approaches managed care as a problem of organisations.

Describes how to achieve the highest ethical standards in your healthcare organisation.

Veatch proposes a postmodern medicine in which decisions about patient care will routinely involve both doctor and patient-not only in ethically complex cases such as the termination of life-sustaining treatment, but in everyday care as well.

Presents 29 case studies that identify the ethical issues that are likely to emerge from technologies of genetic testing and develops a series of guidelines based on the case studies. This book aims to provide guidance for thinking through the ethical issues as well as a starting point for development of additional guidelines.

will be valuable for physicians, nurses, nutritionists, attorneys, members of the clergy, policy makers, and members of the general public." -New England Journal of Medicine

Covers issues such as organ procurement, in-vitro fertilization, and the rationing of medical care. This book also contains essays on residents' autonomy in nursing homes and on the ethical issues raised by the project to map and sequence the human genome.

" -EthicsAn examination of the moral and philosophical issues at work in an individual's confrontation of death, not as a matter of psychological necessity or social conditioning, but as a function of reflection and the search for self-knowledge.

Explores the dilemmas faced by patients and their families.

Examines the ethics of making babies through egg donation.

Contributors from medicine, law, and philosophy query how the growing ability to trace certain diseases and conditions to specific genes might impact the allocation of health care resources, the relationship between patients and physicians, health services for minorities, reproductive health, acces

The ethical and social dilemmas associated with abortion, sterilization, assisted reproduction, genetics, death and dying, and biomedical research have led many to turn to the legal system for solutions. This book argues that resort to law is often misguided and overlooks the limitations of legal institutions.

an excellent sample of some of the best and most varied thinking so far on the numerous conceptual, moral, social, and policy questions raised by contract motherhood." -The Journal of Clinical Ethics