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• Title:Taking sides. Clashing views on controversial bioethical issues / selected, edited, and with introductions by Carol Levine.
  
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• Variant Title:Bioethical issues
  Clashing views on controversial bioethical issues
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Levine, Carol, 1934-
  
• Published/Created:Dubuque, IA : McGraw Hill/Dushkin, ©2006.
  

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  • Call Number: W50 .T335 2006
    
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  • Call Number: W50 .T335 2006
    
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• Library of Congress Subjects:Medical ethics.
  Bioethics.
  
• Medical Subjects: Bioethics.
  Ethics, Medical.
  
• Edition:11th ed.
  
• Description:xxvi, 377 pages ; 24 cm.
  
• Summary:"This debate-style reader is designed to introduce students to controversies in bioethical issues through readings that reflect a variety of viewpoints. Each issue is framed with an issue summary, an issue introduction, and a postscript. The Taking Sides readers feature annotated listings of selected World Wide Web sites"-- Provided by publisher.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:0073129550
  9780073129556
  
• Contents:Introduction : medicine and moral arguments
  Issue 1. Is informed consent still central to medical ethics?
  Issue 2. Can family interests ethically outweigh patient autonomy?
  Issue 3. Does direct-to-consumer advertising of medication enhance patient autonomy?
  Issue 4. Are some advance directives too risky for patients?
  Issue 5. Should physicians be allowed to assist in patient suicide?
  Issue 6. Should truth-telling depend on the patient's culture?
  Issue 7. Should doctors be able to refuse demands for "futile" treatment?
  Issue 8. Should abortions late in pregnancy be banned?
  Issue 9. Should pregnant women be punished for exposing fetuses to risk?
  Issue 10. Should adolescents make their own life-and-death decisions?
  Issue 11. Do parents harm their children when they refuse medical treatment on religious grounds?
  Issue 12. Should human stem cell research be banned?
  Issue 13. Should information from genetic testing be available to employers and insurers?
  Issue 14. Should animal experimentation be permitted?
  Issue 15. Is sham surgery ethically acceptable in clinical research?
  Issue 16. Should health insurance be based on employment?
  Issue 17. Should health care for the elderly be limited?
  Issue 18. Should patient-centered medical ethics govern managed care?
  Issue 19. Should there be payment for body parts?
  Issue 20. Should doctors-in-training be unionized?
  Issue 21. Should public health be given sweeping powers over individual liberty in a bioterrorist threat?