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    Biomedical ethics : a multidisciplinary approach to moral issues in medicine and biology / edited by David Steinberg.

    • Title:Biomedical ethics : a multidisciplinary approach to moral issues in medicine and biology / edited by David Steinberg.
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    • Related Title:Medical ethics (Burlington, Mass.)
    • Other Contributors/Collections:Steinberg, David, 1940-
    • Published/Created:Lebanon, NH : University Press of New England, ©2007.
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Medical ethics.
      Bioethics.
    • Medical Subjects: Bioethical Issues--Collected Works.
      Bioethics--Collected Works.
    • Description:xv, 380 p. ; 23 cm.
    • Notes:Articles reprinted from Medical ethics.
      Includes bibliographical references and index.
    • ISBN:9781584656432 (paperbback : alk. paper)
      1584656433 (pbk. : alk. paper)
    • Contents:Pt. 1. Nature of Biomedical Ethics
      Introduction: The Nature of Biomedical Ethics / David Steinberg
      Bioethics: Then and Now / Allan M. Brandt
      Bioethics: Then and Now / Albert R. Jonsen
      Nature of Morality / Jerome Kagan
      Nature of Morality: The Category of Bad Acts / Richard A. Shweder
      Biological Basis of Morality / David Sloan Wilson
      Amoral Roots of Morality / David Haig
      Religion and the Public Discourse of Bioethics / Laurie Zoloth
      Religion and Bioethics / Daniel Callahan
      Feminist Approaches to Bioethics / Rosemarie Tong
      Feminist Approaches to Bioethics / Gilbert Meilaender
      Bioethics in Culturally Diverse Societies / Leigh Turner
      Bioethics in Culturally Diverse Societies / Bernard Gert
      Pt. 2. Power of Language
      Introduction: The Power of Language / David Steinberg
      Total Artificial Heart: Is Paying for It Immoral and Stopping It Murder? / Robert M. Veatch
      Total Artificial Heart and the Morality of Killing / David Steinberg
      Is This Incest? / Arthur P. Wolf
      Embryo Adoption / Sarah-Vaughan Brakman
      Politics of Embryo Transfer / Mary Anderlik Majumder
      Defending Challenges to the Concept of "Brain Death," / James L. Bernat
      Concept of Brain Death / Michael A. Devita and Robert M. Arnold
      Ethical Framework for Fetal Research / Frank A. Chervenak and Laurence B. McCullough
      Ethics and Fetal Research / Sidney Callahan
      Transgenderism / Norman Spack
      Beyond the Medical Model of Gender Dysphoria to Morphological Self-determination / James J. Hughes
      Pt. 3. Novel Technologies
      Introduction: Novel Technologies / David Steinberg
      Cloning Human Beings / Dan W. Brock
      Commentary on Human Cloning / Ruth Macklin
      Cloning Human Beings / Daniel Callahan
      Ethical Issues of Egg Donation / Sharon Steinberg
      Consent and Uncertainty in Egg Donation / John A. Robertson
      Lesbian Couple Who Both Want a Biologic Link to Their Offspring / Cynthia B. Cohen
      Social and Ethical Challenges of Prenatal Diagnosis / Diane Beeson
      Prenatal Diagnosis / Peter Singer
      Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis: Beginning a Long Conversation / Erik Parens and Thomas H. Murray
      Heating Up the Conversation? / Paul Lauritzen
      Genetic Enhancement: A Conceptual and Ethical Challenge for Gene Therapy Regulation / Eric T. Juengst
      Genetic Enhancement / Glenn McGee
      Genetically Modified Organisms / Daniel Magnus
      Reason and Repugnance / Daniel Callahan
      Human Gene Banks / Garrath Williams
      Are Human Gene Banks Worth It? / Jon F. Merz
      Implantable Brain Chips: Ethical and Policy Issues / Ellen M. McGee and Gerald Q. Maguire, Jr.
      Implantable Brain Chips - Will They Change Who We Are? / Daniel C. Dennett
      Fight over How to Allocate Livers / Robert M. Veatch
      Equity in Liver Allocation / Dan W. Brock
      Pt. 4. In the Clinical Arena
      Introduction: In the Clinical Arena / David Steinberg
      Value of an Ethics Consultation / David Ozar
      Who Does the Ethics Consultation Serve? / Robert D. Orr
      Should I Lie to the Insurance Company? / James E. Sabin
      Conflicting Advance Directives / David Goldblatt
      What Information Should Be Disclosed to Patients? / David Steinberg
      Characteristics of Information and Avoiding Surprises / Heather J. Gert
      Man Who Wouldn't Be Shocked / John A. Balint
      Case of the Unresponsive Hermit / Dan W. Brock
      Live Organ Donation: Determining the Mental Age of Consent / Stuart J. Youngner
      Time for Reflection / Joseph J. Fins
      Let My Wife Bleed to Death / Paul S. Appelbaum
      Teenager's Refusal of Assent for Treatment / Nuala P. Kenny
      Can an HIV-positive Woman Be Forced to Take Medicine to Protect Her Fetus? / Mandy Garber, Susan C. Hunt and Robert M. Arnold
      Ethics for Astronauts / Walter M. Robinson
      Bioethics in Space / Paul Root Wolpe
      When the School Bus Driver Is a Drinker / Stuart J. Youngner
      Should a Clinical Trial Coordinator Blow the Whistle? / Howard Brody
      Do Physicians Overtreat the Seriously Ill? / James L. Bernat
      Reply: Do Physicians Overtreat the Seriously Ill? / George J. Annas
      Is Terminal Sedation Really Euthanasia? / Robert M. Taylor
      My Mother Was a Fighter / Gary S. Fischer and Robert M. Arnold
      Rational Suicide and the Terminally Ill / Susan D. Block
      Rational but Wrong / Hebert Hendin
      Euthanasia for Existential Reasons / G. K. Kimsma
      How Much Suffering Is Enough? / Timothy Quill
      Managing Cross-cultural Conflicts in the Doctor-Patient Relationship / Robert A. Pearlman
      Should This 96-year-old Woman Be Allowed to Die? / Xiuyun Yin, Benfu Li and Yali Cong
      I Can't Watch This Baby Die Inside Me / Frank A. Chervenak and Laurence B. McCullough
      Family Demand for Futile Treatment / Lawrence J. Schneiderman
      Does Anyone Actually Invoke their Hospital Futility Policy? / Jeffrey Burns
      Posthumous Sperm Retrieval / Alexander Morgan Capron
      Must Multiorgan Donors Be Brain Dead? / Robert D. Orr
      Should a PVS Patient Be a Live Organ Donor? / Lainie Friedman Ross
      Pt. 5. Ethics and the Law
      Introduction: Ethics and the Law / David Steinberg
      Keeping Genetic Secrets / Leonard H. Glantz
      Rights and Responsibilities of Gamete Donors / Jane Greenlaw
      Pregnant Women and Their Fetuses: Legal and Ethical Issues / Jane Greenlaw
      Human Chimera Patent Initiative / Stuart A. Newman
      Wendland Case: On Families and Fantasies / Lawrence J. Nelson
      Texas "Futility" Procedure: No Such Thing as a Fairy-tale Ending / Anne L. Flamm
      Legal Pitfalls of Cybermedicine / Nicolas Terry
      Contracting for Healthcare Quality / Frances H. Miller
      Who Should Capture the Value of Donated Tissue? / Robert A. Katz
      Controversy over Recovered Memories / Thomas Gutheil
      Behavioral Genetics: Can We Prevent Crimes Before They Are Committed? / Maxwell J. Mehlman
      Traumatic Brain Injury and Criminal Responsibility / William J. Winslade
      Maternal Infanticide and the Insanity Defense / Margaret Spinelli
      Informed Consent for Stem Cell Research Using Frozen Embryos / Dena S. Davis
      Financial Interests and Research Protections: Can They Coexist? / Rebecca Dresser
      Governmental Bioethics Commissions: The Nature of the Beast / Alexander Morgan Capron
      Pt. 6. Ethics and the Humanities
      Wrongful Death: A Memoir, by Sandra M. Gilbert / David Steinberg
      Doctor Stories, by Richard Selzer / Catherine Belling
      "End of the Line: Depression and Burnout in Ward No. 6," / Jack Coulehan
      "Million Dollar Boo-boo" / David Goldblatt
      Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, by Anne Fadiman / David Steinberg
      How We Die, by Sherwin B. Nuland / Andrew G. Villaneuva
      Sweet Hereafter, by Russell Banks / Delese Wear
      Diagnosis, by Alan Lightman / James L. Bernat
      Unquiet Mind, by Kay Redfield Jamison / David Steinberg
      Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness, by William Styron / David Wykes
      Conquering Schizophrenia: A Father, His Son and a Medical Breakthrough, by Peter Wyden / David Steinberg
      Wit: A Play, by Margaret Edson / Lois LaCivita Nixon
      Travels with the Wolf: A Story of Chronic Illness, by Melissa Anne Goldstein / Jack Coulehan
      Death of the Good Doctor: Lessons from the Heart of the AIDS Epidemic, by Kate Scannell, MD / Felice Aull
      His Brother's Keeper: A Story from the Edge of Medicine, by Jonathan Weiner / Richard M. Ratzan
      Tyranny of the Normal: An Anthology, edited by Carol Donley and Sheryl Buckley / David Steinberg
      Dirty Pretty Things: A Narrative Frame for Black Market Organ Sale, by Steven Knight, directed by Stephen Fears / Lois LaCivita Nixon.
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