medical ethics

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medical ethics

Medical ethics

moral and legal conflicts in health care
1991
Examines current controversies in medical ethics, including issues such as abortion, organ transplantation, euthanasia, and health care for teenagers, the critically ill, and AIDS patients.

Medical dilemmas

1990
Presents ethical and moral dilemmas relating to animal research, gene therapy, transplants, AIDS, mercy killing, and other controversial medical areas.

First, do no harm

1993
Account of the inner workings of Hermann Hospital in Houston, Texas, and the people who make life-and-death decisions every day.

Bioethics & the new medical technology

1993
Examines some of the ethical questions raised by the capabilities of modern medicine.

Health

ethical debates in modern medicine
2009
Discusses both sides of the debate over various medical-related issues, and covers medical ethics, drugs and drug testing, organ transplants, genetic engineering, stem cell research, and other related topics.

Euthanasia

opposing viewpoints
2000
Presents a wide diversity of opinions on euthanasia, and includes discussions on ethics, legalization, physician-assisted suicide, decisions, and infant euthanasia.

Euthanasia

2006
Twenty-four articles present opposing viewpoints on questions regarding euthanasia, including whether it is ethical, whether physician-assisted suicide should be legal, whether legalizing voluntary euthanasia would lead to abuses, and when life support should be stopped.

Medical ethics

life and death issues
2001
Provides a discussion of medical ethics as they relate to organ and tissue donation and transplantation, end of life issues, and other life-and-death situations.

Brave new bioethics

2002
A collection of essays in which the author explores issues of medical ethics, discussing bioethics and bioethicists, assisted reproduction, cloning, death and dying, AIDS, and other topics.

The search for life

1975
Examines, both in scientific and ethical terms, genetic research, experiments in freezing, the development of artificial body parts, and progress in transplanting human organs.

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