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    Ethical health care / Patricia Illingworth, Wendy E. Parmet.

    • Title:Ethical health care / Patricia Illingworth, Wendy E. Parmet.
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    • Author/Creator:Illingworth, Patricia M. L., 1954-
    • Other Contributors/Collections:Parmet, Wendy E.
    • Published/Created:Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Pearson/Prentice Hall, ©2006.
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Medical ethics.
      Public health--Moral and ethical aspects.
      Bioethics.
    • Medical Subjects: Ethics, Medical.
      Bioethical Issues.
      Public Health--ethics.
    • Description:xiv, 606 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
    • ISBN:0130453013
      9780130453013
    • Contents:Bioethics: Expanding Our Horizons
      Shifting Paradigms
      The Bioethical Perspective
      Questions of Justice
      The History of Public Health
      The Population Perspective
      The Building Blocks of Health
      What Is Health?
      "Health and Creative Adaptation" / Rene Dubos
      "The WHO Definition of Health" / Daniel Callahan
      What Makes Us Healthy?
      "Sick Individuals and Sick Populations" / Geoffrey Rose
      "Long Live Community: Social Capital as Public Health" / Ichiro Kawachi, Bruce P. Kennedy, Kimberly Lochner
      The Economics of Health Care
      "The American Health Care System- Expenditures" / John K. Iglehart
      "Rationing Health Care and the Need for Credible Scarcity: Why Americans Can't Say No" / Wendy K. Mariner
      The Health of Individuals
      What and Why Autonomy?
      "Autonomy and Informed Consent" / Gerald Dworkin
      "The Origins and Consequences of Patients Autonomy: A 25-Year Retrospective" / David J. Rothman
      Shine v. Vega
      "'Culture of Life' Politics at the Bedside- The Case of Terri Schiavo" / George J. Annas
      "The Tragedy of the Commons" / Garrett Hardin
      Individual Responsibility for the Health of Others
      Jacobson v. Massachusetts
      In re A.C.
      Ferguson v. City of Charleston
      "HIV Sufferers Have a Responsibility" / Amitai Etzioni
      "AIDS Prevention-Sexual Ethics and Responsibility" / Ronald Bayer
      The Implications of Autonomy
      "The Privatization of Risk" / Beverly Rockhill
      "Taking Risks, Assessing Responsibility" / Gerald Dworkin.
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