medical ethics

Contains advice for patients, families, and friends who face the dilemma--should the life of a patient near death be prolonged?.

Discusses the contemporary ethic of life and death as regards issues such as euthanasia, brain death, and abortion.

In the not-too-distant future, when biotechnological advances have made synthetic bodies and brains possible but illegal, a seventeen-year-old girl, recovering from a serious accident and suffering from memory lapses, learns a startling secret about her existence.

"Discusses the advances that have been made in organ transplantation"--Provided by publisher.

Discusses various aspects of medical ethics, including high-tech sexual reproduction, organ transplants, and the allocation of scarce resources.

Discusses biomedical technologies and their consequences including the ethical dilemmas that arise.

Examines a variety of ethical issues related to the future of medicine, including gene therapy, cloning, the sale of human body parts, and experiments on human embryos; and argues that outmoded ethics are proving to be an impediment to progress in the field of medicine.

Offers a comprehensive history of the use of human subjects in atomic, biological, and chemical warfare experiments from World War II to the twenty-first century.