Living and Dying Well

Softcover Nachdruck of the original 1. Auflage 1996
ISBN: 978-1-4899-0208-5
Verlag: Springer US

Buch, Englisch, 362 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 569 g

Reihe: Critical Issues in Social Justice

takes an informed, interdisciplinary approach to the problems, data, theory, and procedures that a just society must consider when establishing policies regarding human life and death. Leading psychologist Lewis Petrinovich expands on the controversial arguments developed in his earlier work, , and considers such contemporary issues as: the morality of human genetic screening and of the Human Genome Project; organ transplants; the allowance of suicide and euthanasia; and physicians assisting in the dying process.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Petrinovich, Lewis

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologische Disziplinen Gesundheitspsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Kommunal-, Regional-, und Landespolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Bioethik, Tierethik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Objectives and Background Principles.- 2. Genetic Screening.- 3. The Human Genome Project.- 4. Death and Its Criteria.- 5. Organ Transplants.- 6. Suicide and Euthanasia: Moral and Legal Issues.- 7. Euthanasia: Moral and Medical Issues.- 8. Medical Ethics and Hospital Review Boards.- 9. Health-Care Policy: Issues.- 10. Two Proposed Health-Care Plans: Oregon Rationing and Managed Competition.- 11. Problems in Achieving Health-Care Reform.- 12. A Single-Payer National Health Plan.- 13. Moral, Medical, and Financial Issues.- 14. The Great Health-Care Debate.- 15. Epilogue.- References.- Author Index.