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Introduction | ||
Pt. 1 | Principles and Core Values | 1 |
1 | What Is Health Care Ethics? | 3 |
2 | Other Ethical Systems | 9 |
3 | Medical Ethics Needs Accurate Distinctions | 13 |
4 | The Values Inherent in Medical Care | 16 |
5 | Medical Ethics: Basic Goals | 19 |
6 | Medicine: Not an Exact Science | 22 |
7 | Professionalism: The Essence Is Empathy | 26 |
8 | Professional Attitudes - The Ethical Physician | 29 |
9 | Human Rights and Health Care | 32 |
10 | Culture and Religion | 36 |
11 | "No Greater Love" | 40 |
Pt. 2 | Informed Consent: Personal and Proxy | 45 |
12 | Informed Consent | 47 |
13 | Proxy Consent: Deciding for Others | 49 |
14 | Informed Consent and the Purpose of Medicine | 52 |
15 | Standards for Surrogates | 55 |
16 | Informed Consent: Therapeutic and Nontherapeutic Procedures | 58 |
17 | Informed Consent: Neonatal Care | 61 |
18 | When Children Can Consent | 65 |
19 | Telling the Truth to Patients | 69 |
20 | Confidentiality | 71 |
21 | Confidentiality in the Computer Age | 74 |
22 | CPR and DNR Revisited | 78 |
23 | Living Will and Durable Power of Attorney | 82 |
24 | The Patient Self-Determination Act (PSDA) | 85 |
25 | Advance Directives Revisited | 88 |
Pt. 3 | Use and Removal of Life Support | 93 |
26 | Ordinary and Extraordinary Means | 95 |
27 | Ethical Criteria for Removing Life Support | 98 |
28 | Withholding and Withdrawing Life Support | 102 |
29 | Assessing Treatment Options | 106 |
30 | Discontinuing Life Support in Doubt | 109 |
31 | Religious Beliefs and Lifesaving Therapy | 113 |
32 | Care for Patients in Persistent Vegetative States | 117 |
33 | Unfinished Business in the Cruzan Case | 120 |
34 | "Only God Can Heal My Daughter" | 124 |
35 | It's Time to Resolve the "Futility Debate" | 127 |
36 | Court Decisions on Futile Therapy | 131 |
37 | The Wanglie Case: Demands for Futile Therapy | 134 |
38 | Baby K: It's Time to Take a Stand | 138 |
Pt. 4 | Genetics | 143 |
39 | Cloning (Artifical Twinning): Have We Gone Too Far? | 145 |
40 | Genetic Testing: Ethics Issues | 149 |
41 | Concerns about Genetic Testing: Is a Little Knowledge Dangerous? | 153 |
42 | Cloning Human Beings | 157 |
Pt. 5 | Organ Donation | 161 |
43 | Organ Donation: Priceless Gift or Market Commodity? | 163 |
44 | Baby Theresa: "The Good That Could Be Done" | 167 |
45 | The Baby Fae Legacy | 171 |
46 | Destroying One Life to Save Others | 174 |
47 | Obtaining Organs from Non-Heart-Beating Cadavers | 179 |
48 | Mandated Choice for Organ Donation | 182 |
Pt. 6 | Research | 187 |
49 | Human Research Using Animals | 189 |
50 | Use of Fetal Tissue in Research and Therapy | 192 |
51 | Embryo Research: Ethical Issues | 195 |
52 | Research in the Emergency Department | 198 |
Pt. 7 | Suicide and Physician-Assisted Suicide | 203 |
53 | Suicide: A Rational Choice? | 205 |
54 | The Myth of "Managed Death" | 208 |
55 | Kevorkian's Dilemma: Are We Owners or Stewards of Human Life? | 211 |
56 | Physician-Assisted Suicide: An Ethical Analysis of Presuppositions | 214 |
57 | Suffering and the Debate over Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia | 218 |
58 | Federal Courts Approve Physician-Assisted Suicide | 222 |
59 | The U.S. Supreme Court and Assisted Suicide | 226 |
60 | Social Aspects of Assisted Suicide | 229 |
61 | Can Liberty Sustain Itself? Reflections on Physician-Assisted Suicide | 233 |
Pt. 8 | Managed Care | 237 |
62 | Ethical Issues and Managed Care: Asking the Right Questions | 239 |
63 | Harry and Louise: What Happened? | 243 |
64 | Managed Care and Early Discharge of Newborn Infants | 246 |
65 | Treating Symptoms or Basic Causes | 249 |
66 | Handling the 800-Pound Gorilla | 253 |
67 | The Oregon Health Care Plan: Some Questions | 257 |
Pt. 9 | Artificial Generation | 261 |
68 | In Vitro Fertilization and Surrogate Motherhood | 263 |
69 | Conceiving One Child to Save Another | 266 |
Pt. 10 | Special Questions | 271 |
70 | On Playing God | 273 |
71 | Autopsy: Ethical and Religious Considerations | 276 |
72 | Pain: Some Ethical Considerations | 279 |
73 | Suffering and the Need for Compassion | 282 |
74 | Truth-Telling and Alzheimer's Disease | 285 |
75 | Ethics Committees in Hospitals | 289 |
76 | The Role of Ethics Committees | 292 |
77 | "There But for the Grace of God": Disclosing Imperfect Care | 297 |
78 | Treatment of Rape Victims | 300 |
79 | Separating the Lakeberg Twins: Ethical Issues | 303 |
80 | The McCaughey Septuplets: All's Well that Ends Well? | 307 |
81 | Early Delivery of Anencephalic Infants: Ethical Opinions | 311 |
About the Center for Health Care Ethics | 316 | |
Index | 317 |
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