Biomedical Ethics: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Moral Issues in Medicine and Biology Book

Preface

THE NATURE OF BIOMEDICAL ETHICS Introduction: The Nature of Biomedical Ethics - David Steinberg, MD Bioethics: Then and Now - Allan M. Brandt, PhD Bioethics: Then and Now - Albert R. Jonsen, PhD The Nature of Morality - Jerome Kagan, PhD The Nature of Morality: The Category of Bad Acts - Richard A. Shweder, PhD The Biological Basis of Morality - David Sloan Wilson, PhD The Amoral Roots of Morality - David Haig, PhD Religion and the Public Discourse of Bioethics - Laurie Zoloth, PhD Religion and Bioethics - Daniel Callahan, PhD Feminist Approaches to Bioethics -Rosemarie Tong, PhD Feminist Approaches to Bioethics - Gilbert Meilaender, PhD Bioethics in Culturally Diverse Societies - Leigh Turner, PhD Bioethics in Culturally Diverse Societies - Bernard Gert, PhD

THE POWER OF LANGUAGE Introduction: The Power of Language - David Steinberg, MD The Total Artificial Heart: Is Paying for It Immoral and Stopping It Murder - Robert M. Veatch, PhD The Total Artificial Heart and the Morality of Killing - David Steinberg, MD Is This Incest? - Arthur P. Wolf, PhD Embryo Adoption - Sarah-Vaughan Brakman, PhD The Politics of Embryo Transfer - Mary Anderlik Majumder, JD, PhD Defending Challenges to the Concept of "Brain Death" - James L. Bernat, MD The Concept of Brain Death - Michael A. Devita, MD and Robert M. Arnold, MD An Ethical Framework for Fetal Research - Frank A. Chervenak, MD and Laurence B. McCullough, PhD Ethics and Fetal Research - Sidney Callahan, PhD Transgenderism - Norman Spack, MD Beyond the Medical Model of Gender Dysphoria to Morphological Self-determination - James J. Hughes, PhD

NOVEL TECHNOLOGIES Introduction: Novel Technologies - David Steinberg, MD Cloning Human Beings - Dan W. Brock, PhD Commentary on Human Cloning -Ruth Macklin, PhD Cloning Human Beings - Daniel Callahan, PhD Ethical Issues of Egg Donation - Sharon Steinberg, RN, MS, CS Consent and Uncertainty in Egg Donation - John A. Robertson, BA, JD A Lesbian Couple Who Both Want a Biologic Link to Their Offspring - Cynthia B. Cohen, PhD, JD Social and Ethical Challenges of Prenatal Diagnosis - Diane Beeson, PhD Prenatal Diagnosis -Peter Singer, MA, BPHIL Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis: Beginning a Long Conversation - Erik Parens, PhD and Thomas H. Murray, PhD Heating Up the Conversation? - Paul Lauritzen, PhD Genetic Enhancement: A Conceptual and Ethical Challenge for Gene Therapy Regulation - Eric T. Juengst, PhD Genetic Enhancement - Glenn McGee, PhD Genetically Modified Organisms - Daniel Magnus, PhD Reason and Repugnance - Daniel Callahan, PhD Human Gene Banks - Garrath Williams, PhD Are Human Gene Banks Worth It? - Jon F. Merz, MBA, JD, MD Implantable Brain Chips: Ethical and Policy Issues - Ellen M. McGee, PhD and Gerald Q. Maguire, Jr., PhD Implantable Brain Chips—Will They Change Who We Are? - Daniel C. Dennett, PhD The Fight over How to Allocate Livers - Robert M. Veatch, PhD Equity in Liver Allocation - Dan W. Brock, PhD

IN THE CLINICAL ARENA Introduction: In the Clinical Arena - David Steinberg, MD The Value of an Ethics Consultation - David Ozar, PhD Who Does the Ethics Consultation Serve? - Robert D. Orr, MD, CM Should I Lie to the Insurance Company? - James E. Sabin, MD Conflicting Advance Directives - David Goldblatt, MD What Information Should Be Disclosed to Patients? - David Steinberg, MD The Characteristics of Information and Avoiding Surprises - Heather J. Gert, PhD The Man Who Wouldn't Be Shocked - John A. Balint, MD, FRCP The Case of the Unresponsive Hermit - Dan W. Brock, PhD Live Organ Donation: Determining the Mental Age of Consent - Stuart J. Youngner, MD A Time for Reflection - Joseph J. Fins, MD Let My Wife Bleed to Death - Paul S. Appelbaum, MD A Teenager's Refusal of Assent for Treatment - Nuala P. Kenny, MD Can an HIV-positive Woman Be Forced to Take Medicine to Protect Her Fetus? - Mandy Garber, MD, Susan C. Hunt, MD, and Robert M. Arnold, MD Ethics for Astronauts - Walter M. Robinson, MD, MPH Bioethics in Space - Paul Root Wolpe, PhD When the School Bus Driver Is a Drinker - Stuart J. Youngner, MD Should a Clinical Trial Coordinator Blow the Whistle? -Howard Brody, MD, PhD Do Physicians Overtreat the Seriously Ill? - James L. Bernat, MD Reply: Do Physicians Overtreat the Seriously Ill? - George J. Annas, JD, MPH Is Terminal Sedation Really Euthanasia? - Robert M. Taylor, MD My Mother Was a Fighter - Gary S Fischer, MD and Robert M. Arnold, MD Rational Suicide and the Terminally Ill - Susan D. Block, MD Rational but Wrong - Hebert Hendin, MD Euthanasia for Existential Reasons - G. K. Kimsma, MD, MPH How Much Suffering Is Enough? - Timothy Quill, MD Managing Cross-cultural Conflicts in the Doctor-Patient Relationship - Robert A. Pearlman, MD, MPH Should This 96-year-old Woman Be Allowed to Die? - Xiuyun Yin, PhD, Benfu Li, MD, and Yali Cong, PhD I Can't Watch This Baby Die Inside Me - Frank A. Chervenak, MD and Laurence B. McCullough, PhD Family Demand for Futile Treatment - Lawrence J. Schneiderman, MD Does Anyone Actually Invoke their Hospital Futility Policy? - Jeffrey Burns, MD, MPH Posthumous Sperm Retrieval - Alexander Morgan Capron Must Multiorgan Donors Be Brain Dead? - Robert D. Orr, MD, CM Should a PVS Patient Be a Live Organ Donor? - Lainie Friedman Ross, MD, PhD

ETHICS AND THE LAW Introduction: Ethics and the Law - David Steinberg, MD Keeping Genetic Secrets - Leonard H. Glantz, JD Rights and Responsibilities of Gamete Donors - Jane Greenlaw, JD Pregnant Women and Their Fetuses: Legal and Ethical Issues - Jane Greenlaw, JD The Human Chimera Patent Initiative - Stuart A. Newman, PhD The Wendland Case: On Families and Fantasies - Lawrence J. Nelson, PhD, JD The Texas "Futility" Procedure: No Such Thing as a Fairy-tale Ending - Anne L. Flamm, JD Legal Pitfalls of Cybermedicine - Nicolas Terry, LLM Contracting for Healthcare Quality - Frances H. Miller, JD Who Should Capture the Value of Donated Tissue? - Robert A. Katz, JD The Controversy over Recovered Memories - Thomas Gutheil, MD Behavioral Genetics: Can We Prevent Crimes Before They Are Committed? - Maxwell J. Mehlman, JD Traumatic Brain Injury and Criminal Responsibility - William J. Winslade, PhD, JD Maternal Infanticide and the Insanity Defense - Margaret Spinelli, MD Informed Consent for Stem Cell Research Using Frozen Embryos - Dena S. Davis, JD, PhD Financial Interests and Research Protections: Can They Coexist? - Rebecca Dresser, JD Governmental Bioethics Commissions: The Nature of the Beast - Alexander Morgan Capron, LLB

ETHICS AND THE HUMANITIES Wrongful Death: A Memoir - Sandra M. Gilbert and David Steinberg, MD The Doctor Stories - Richard Selzer and Catherine Belling, MA
"End of the Line: Depression and Burnout in Ward No. 6" - Jack Coulehan, MD, MPH
"Million Dollar Boo-boo" - David Goldblatt, MD The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down - Anne Fadiman and David Steinberg, MD How We Die - by Sherwin B. Nuland and Andrew G. Villaneuva, MD The Sweet Hereafter - Russell Banks and Delese Wear, PhD The Diagnosis - Alan Lightman and James L. Bernat, MD An Unquiet Mind - Kay Redfield Jamison and David Steinberg, MD Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness - William Styron and David Wykes, PhD Conquering Schizophrenia: A Father, His Son and a Medical Breakthrough - Peter Wyden and David Steinberg, MD Wit: A Play - Margaret Edson and Lois LaCivita Nixon, PhD, MPH Travels with the Wolf: A Story of Chronic Illness - Melissa Anne Goldstein and Jack Coulehan, MD, MPH Death of the Good Doctor: Lessons from the Heart of the AIDS Epidemic - Kate Scannell, MD and Felice Aull, PhD, MA His Brother's Keeper: A Story from the Edge of Medicine - Jonathan Weiner and Richard M. Ratzan, MD The Tyranny of the Normal: An Anthology - edited by Carol Donley, Sheryl Buckley. and David Steinberg, MD Dirty Pretty Things: A Narrative Frame for Black Market Organ Sale - Steven Knight, directed by Stephen Fears and Lois LaCivita Nixon, PhD, MLITT, MPH

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