Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 462 g
The Law of American Bioethics
Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 462 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-512006-6
Verlag: Oxford University Press
Using courtroom resolutions of real bioethical disputes as its focus, Standard of Care explores the fundamental value conflicts confronting medicine and society today. This case-based approach illuminates the value choices involved in modern medicine. The author urges health care professionals to go beyond the minimalist legal "standard of care" by promoting a vigorous, patient-centred medical ethics based on both respect for the human rights of individual patients and responsibility to society. If modern medicine is to enhance human life, a reconceptualization of law as the beginning of ethical discourse, rather than as an instrument to end it, is essential.
Most of the papers in this book were originally published in the Hastings Center Report and other journals, but they have all been revised and updated for this volume. They are grouped in three broad sections: constitutional issues, private sector bioethics, and public sector bioethics. They deal with reproductive rights, dying and killing, AIDS, biotechnology and commerce, organ transplants and implants, and resource allocation. No other work provides such an incisive and readable survey of the major legal and ethical issues confronting American medicine.
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- The U.S. Constitution and Bioethics
- PART I: Current Controversies
- 1: Brave New Medicine: Restricting Doctor-Patient Conversations
- 2: Trend Surfing: The War on Drugs and Prisoners
- 3: She's Going to Die: The Tragedy of Angela Carter
- PART II: Constitutional Rights at the Beginning of Life
- 4: The Supreme Court, Privacy, and Abortion
- 5: The Short, Happy Life of Commercial Surgery
- 6: A French Homunculus in a Tennessee Court
- PART III: Constitutional Rights at the End of Life
- 7: The Insane Root Takkes Reason Prisoner: The Supreme Court and the Right to Die
- 8: In Thunder, Lightning or in Rain
- 9: Legislating the Right to Die: In the Laboratory of the States
- Private Sector Bioethics
- PART IV: AIDS: Public and Private Obligations
- 10: Not saints but Healers: Legal Duties of Physicians in the AIDS Epidemic
- 11: Faith (Healing), Hope and Charity at the FDA: The Politics of AIDS Drugs Trials
- PART V: Biotechnology and Commerce
- 12: Mapping the Human Genome and the Meaning of Monster Mythology
- 13: Outrageous Fortune: Selling Other People's Cells
- Public Sector Bioethics
- PART VI: Organ Transplants and Implants
- 14: The Politics of Tetal Tissue Transplants
- 15: From Canada with Love: Death and Organ Donation
- 16: Death and the Magic Machine: Consent to the Artificial Heart
- PART VII: Resourse Allocation
- 17: Rationing Medical Care
- 18: Minerva v. National Health Agency, 53 U.S. 2d 333 (2020)
- PART VIII: Killing
- 19: Siamese Twins: Killing One to Save the Other
- 20: Killing Machines
- Health Law and Bioethics and the Millenium
