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• Title:Life choices : a Hastings Center introduction to bioethics / edited by Joseph H. Howell and William F. Sale ; foreword by Daniel Callahan.
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:Howell, Joseph H.
  Sale, William F. (William Frederick)
  
• Published/Created:Washington, DC : Georgetown University Press, 2000.
  

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  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY swing space (Floor 1)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: W50 .L5342 2000
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:United States. National Bioethics Advisory Commission.
  Medical ethics.
  
• Medical Subjects: Bioethics.
  Ethics, Medical.
  
• Edition:2nd ed.
  
• Description:xiv, 601 pages ; 23 cm
  
• Series:Hastings Center studies in ethics.
  
• Summary:A collection of articles by leading bioethicists that address a wide variety of topics related to bioethics.
  
• Notes:"Articles from the Hastings Center report": pages 599-601.
  Includes bibliographical references.
  
• ISBN:087840757X (pbk.)
  9780878407576 (pbk.)
  
• Contents:Introduction: Can Ethics Provide Answers?
  Can Ethics Provide Answers? / James Rachels
  The Role of Emotion in Ethical Decisionmaking / Sidney Callahan
  Where Ethics Comes From and What to Do About It / Carl Elliott
  The Goals and Allocation of Medicine
  The Goals of Medicine: Setting New Priorities: A Hastings Center Project Report
  Setting New Priorities
  Specifying the Goals of Medicine
  Medicine and Public Health, Ethics and Human Rights / Jonathan M. Mann
  The Allocation of Medicine
  Last-Chance Therapies and Managed Care: Pluralism, Fair Procedures, and Legitimacy / Norman Daniels, James E. Sabin
  Rescuing Lives: Can't We Count? / Paul T. Menzel
  Public Goods and Fair Prices: Balancing Technological Innovation with Social Well-Being / Baruch Brody
  Biomedicine, Rights, and Responsibilities
  The Burden of Decision / Alexander Morgan Capron
  What About the Family? / John Hardwig
  The Family in Medical Decisionmaking / Jeffrey Blustein
  Reproductive Freedom and Responsibility
  Abortion: The Right to an Argument / Gilbert Meilaender
  Is There Life After Roe v. Wade? / Mary B. Mahowald
  Abortion: Listening to the Middle / Edward A. Langerak
  Termination of Treatment
  Setting Standards for Limiting Care
  Is There a Duty to Die? / John Hardwig
  Terminating Treatment: Age as a Standard / Daniel Callahan
  Triage in the ICU / Robert D. Truog
  Terminating Treatment for the Terminally Ill
  Is Consent Useful When Resuscitation Isn't? / Giles R. Scofield.