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Am I my brother's keeper? : the ethical frontiers of biomedicine / Arthur L. Caplan

Author
Caplan, Arthur L.
Published
Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [1997]
Copyright Date
©1997
Physical Description
1 online resource (xiii, 241 pages).
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Language Note
English.
Contents
pt. 1. Research, experimentation, and innovation: And baby makes--moral muddles -- The intrusion of evil, the use of data from unethical medical experiments -- Have a heart? The ethical lessons of the development of the total artificial heart -- "What a long, strange trip it's been," the debate over the use of fetal tissue for transplantation research -- pt. 2. Starting and stopping medical treatment for the very young and very old: Hard cases make bad law, the legacy of the Baby Doe controversy -- Analogies to the Holocaust and contemporary bioethical disputes about assisted suicide and euthanasia --Will Dr. Kevorkian kill hospice? -- Odds and ends -- No sale: markets, organs, and tissues -- Is the use of animal organs for transplants immoral? -- Am I my brother's keeper? Ethics and the use of living donors -- pt. 4. Health policy: Dead as a doornail -- sinners, saints, and access to health care -- The ethics of gatekeepers -- pt. 5. What is your doctor trying to do to you? Who says you're sick? -- Curing what ails the medical model -- If gene therapyis the cure, what's the disease? -- What's wrong with eugenics? -- Do not copy without permission.
Summary
The author discusses "some of the most pressing issues in medical ethics today--including doctor-assisted suicide, gene therapy, fetal research, access to health care," and cloning.--Jacket
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ISBN
0585319197 (electronic bk.)
9780585319193 (electronic bk.)
1282079301
9781282079304
9786612079306
6612079304
0253113741
9780253113740
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-235) and index.
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