New Perspectives in Healthcare Ethics

An Interdisciplinary and Crosscultural Approach

Häftad, Engelska, 2010

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For one-quarter/semester courses in Medical Ethics, Biomedical Ethics, Allied Healthcare, Healthcare Ethics, and Healthcare Law and Ethics. Tong, a well-known biomedical ethicist, combines medical ethics, bioethics, and her own unique insights to provide a comprehensive survey of contemporary health care ethics issues.

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Utgivningsdatum2010-08-17
Mått0 x 10 x 0 mm
Vikt0 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor368
Upplaga1
FörlagPearson Education
ISBN9780130613479

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Rosemarie Tong is distinguished Professor of Health Care Ethics at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She is the author or co-author of Women, Sex, and the Law; Ethics in Policy Analysis; Feminist Thought: A Comprehensive Introduction; Feminine and Feminist Ethics; Controlling Our Reproductive Destiny: A Technological and Philosophical Perspective (with Lawrence Kaplan); Feminist Approaches to Bioethics;and Feminist Thought: A More Comprehensive Introduction. Her edited books include Feminist Philosophy: Essential Readings in Theory, Reinterpretation, and Application (with Nancy Tuana), Globalizing Feminist Bioethics (with Aida Santos and Gwen Anderson), and soon to be published Feminist Bioethics, Human Rights and the Developing World: Integrating Global and Local Perspectives (with Anne Donchin and Susan Dodds).

Part One: A Conceptual Framework for Health Care Ethics1. Chapter One: Introduction2. Chapter Two: Ethical Theories and Principles in Health Care3. Chapter Three: The Health Care Professional-Patient RelationshipPart Two: Health and Disease Issues4. Chapter Four: Biological Givens or Social Constructions?5. Chapter Five: Biomedical and Behavioral ResearchPart Three: Beginning of Life Issues6. Chapter Six: Abortion7. Chapter Seven: Reproduction-Assisting Technologies: Donor Insemination, In-vitro Fertilization, and Beyond8. Chapter Eight: Genetic Screening, Counseling, and Therapy9. Chapter Nine: Therapeutic Cloning, Reproductive Cloning, and EctogenesisPart Four: End of Life Issues10. Chapter Ten: The Aging Process and Long-Term Health Care11. Chapter Eleven: Euthanasia, Assisted Suicide, and Palliative CarePart Five: Micro- and Macro-Allocation Issues12. Chapter Twelve: Organ Transplantation: Individual Allocation Decisions13. Chapter Thirteen: Health Care Reform: Social Distribution Decisions