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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0073535869
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0073535869
• Author: Bonnie Steinbock (Author), Alex John London (Author), John Arras (Author)

Ethical Issues in Modern Medicine: Contemporary Readings in Bioethics, Eighth Edition, is a comprehensive, state-of-the-art anthology that covers both traditional and emerging issues in the field of biomedical ethics with engaging case studies and reflective papers written by leading scholars. Each of the book’s seven parts begins with a helpful introduction that raises important questions and skillfully contextualizes the positions and key points of the articles that follow. This eighth edition has been thoroughly updated to include the most important recent contributions to contemporary debates, and all selections have been subjected to the editors’ exacting standards for both scholarly quality and teachability.

Table contents:

PART ONE: Foundations of the Health Professional-Patient Relationship
Section 1: Autonomy, Paternalism, and Medical Models
Hippocratic Oath
The Refutation of Medical Paternalism | Alan Goldman
Case Study: Beneficience Today, or Autonomy (Maybe) Tomorrow?
Commentary | Bernice S. Elger
Commentary | Jean-Claude Chevrolet
Why Doctors Should Intervene | Terrence F. Ackerman
Four Models of the Physician-Patient Relationship | Ezekiel J. Emanuel and Linda L. Emanuel
Section 2: Informed Consent and Truth-Telling
Case Study: Antihypertensives and the Risk of Temporary Impotence: A Case Study in Informed Consent | John D. Arras
Errors in Medicine: Nurturing Truthfulness | Françoise Baylis
Bioethics in a Different Tongue: The Case of Truth-Telling | Leslie J. Blackhall, Gelya Frank, Sheila Murphy and Vicki Mitchel
Section 3: Conflicting Professional Roles and Responsibilities
Case Study: Vitaly Tarasoff et al. v. The Regents of the University of California et al., Defendants and Respondents
Case Study: Please Don’t Tell
Commentary | Leonard Fleck
Commentary | Marcia Angell
Case Study: Disclosing Misattributed Paternity | Lainie Friedman Ross
The Lessons of SARS | Ezekiel J. Emanuel
The Limits of Conscientious Objections—May Pharmacists Refuse to Fill Prescriptions for Emergency Contraception? | Julie Cantor and Ken Baum
Case Study: Why Physicians Participate in Executions | Atul Gawande
“To Comfort Always”: Physician Participation in Executions | Ken Baum
Recommended Supplmentary Reading

PART TWO: Allocation, Social Justice, and Health Policy
Section 1: Justice, Health, and Health Care
Case Study: The Young Invincibles | David Amsden
An Ethical Framework for Access to Health Care | President’s Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research
Equal Opportunity and Health Care | Norman Daniels
Growth Hormone Therapy for the Disability of Short Stature | David B. Allen
The Genome Project, Individual Differences, and Just Health Care | Norman Daniels
Foundational Ethics of the Health Care System: The Moral and Practical Superiority of Free Market Reforms | Robert M. Sade
The Realistic Moral Right to a Basic Minimum of Accessible Health Care | Paul T. Menzel
Why the United States Is Not Number One in Health | Ichiro Kawachi
Opportunity Is Not the Key | Gopal Sreenivasan
Section 2: Allocating Scarce Resources
Case Study: Bone Marrow Transplants for Advanced Breast Cancer: The Story of Christine Demeurers | Alex John London
Justice and the High Cost of Health | Ronald Dworkin
Responsibility in Health Care: A Liberal Egalitarian Approach | Alexander W. Cappelen and Ole Frithjof Norheim
Last-Chance Therapies and Managed Care: Pluralism, Fair Procedures, and Legitimacy | Norman Daniels and James Sabin
Principles for Allocation of Scarce Medical Interventions | Govind Persad, Alan Wertheimer, and Ezekiel J. Emanuel
Section 3: Organ Transplantation: Gifts Versus Markets
The Case for Allowing Kidney Sales | Janet Radcliffe-Richards, Abdallah S. Daar, Ronald D. Guttman, Raymond Hoffenberg, Ian Kennedy, Margaret Lock, Robert A. Sells, Nicholas L. Tilney, for the International Forum for Transplant Ethics
An Ethical Market in Human Organs | Charles A. Erin and John Harris
Body Values: The Case against Compensating for Transplant Organs | Donald Joralemon and Phil Cox
Section 4: Poverty, Health, and Justice Beyond National Borders
Responsibilities for Poverty-Related Illness | Thomas W. Pogge
What’s Wrong with the Global Migration of Health Care Professionals? | James Dwyer
Do We Owe the Global Poor Assistance or Rectification? | Mathias Risse
Recommended Supplementary Reading

PART THREE: Forgoing Life-Sustaining Treatment and Euthanasia
Section 1: Decisional Capacity and the Right to Refuse Treatment
Case Study: State of Tennessee Department of Human Services v. Mary C. Northern
Transcript of Proceedings: Testimony of Mary C. Northern
Deciding for Others: Competency | Allen Buchanan and Dan W. Brock
Case Study: A Chronicle: Dax’s Case as It Happened | Keith Burton
Confronting Death: Who Chooses, Who Controls? | Dax Cowart and Robert Burt
Section 2: Advance Directives
Enough: The Failure of the Living Will | Angela Fagerlin and Carl E. Schneider
Testing the Limits of Prospective Autonomy: Five Scenarios | Norman L. Cantor
Section 3: Choosing for Once-Competent Patients
Case Study: Erring on the Side of Theresa Schiavo: Reflections of the Special Guardian ad Litem | Jay Wolfson
Case Study: In the Matter of Claire C. Conroy
The Severely Demented, Minimally Functional Patient: An Ethical Analysis | John D. Arras
Nutrition and Hydration: Moral and Pastoral Reflections | U.S. Bishops’ Pro-Life Committee
Quality of Life and Non-Treatment Decisions for Incompetent Patients: A Critique of the Orthodox Approach | Rebecca S. Dresser and John A. Robertson
The Limits of Legal Objectivity | Nancy K. Rhoden
Section 4: Choosing for Never-Competent Patients
Case Study: Termination of Life-Support for a Never-Competent Patient: The Case of Sheila Pouliot | Alicia R. Ouellette
Extreme Prematurity and Parental Rights After Baby Doe | John A. Robertson
Parental Refusal of Medical Treatment for a Newborn | John J. Paris, Michael D. Schreiber, and Michael P. Moreland
Section 5: Physician-Assisted Death
Case Study: Death and Dignity: A Case of Individualized Decision Making | Timothy E. Quill
Voluntary Active Euthanasia | Dan W. Brock
Physician-Assisted Suicide: A Tragic View | John D. Arras
Case Study: ‘To Thine Own Self Be True’: On The Loss of Integrity as a Kind of Suffering | Henri Wijsbek
Euthanasia: The Way We Do It, the Way They Do It: End-of-Life Practices in the Developed World | Margaret P. Battin
Is There a Duty to Die? | John Hardwig
“For Now Have I My Death”: The “Duty to Die” versus the Duty to Help the Ill Stay Alive | Felicia Nimue Ackerman
Recommended Supplementary Reading

PART FOUR: Life, Death, and Moral Status
Section 1: The Significance of Death
The Whole-Brain Concept of Death Remains Optimum Public Policy | James L. Bernat
Personal Statement of Edmund D. Pellegrino, M.D.
An Alternative to Brain Death | Jeff McMahan
“Human Non-Person”: Terri Schiavo, Bioethics, and Our Future | Wesley J. Smith
How Much of the Brain Must Be Dead? | Baruch A. Brody
Section 2: The Morality of Abortion
The Unspeakable Crime of Abortion | Pope John Paul II
On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion | Mary Anne Warren
Why Abortion Is Immoral | Don Marquis
A Defense of Abortion | Judith Jarvis Thomson
Section 3: Embryonic Stem-Cell Research
Embryo Ethics—The Moral Logic of Stem-Cell Research | Michael J. Sandel
Acorns and Embryos | Robert P. George and Patrick Lee

PART FIVE: Reproduction
Section 1: Procreative Responsibility
Case Study: Melissa Rowland | Susan M. Haack
Melissa Rowland and the Rights of Pregnant Women | Howard Minkoff and Lynn M. Paltrow
The Rights and Responsibilities of Pregnant Women | Susan M. Haack
Reproductive Freedom and Prevention of Genetically Transmitted Harmful Conditions | Allen Buchanan, Dan W. Brock, Norman Daniels and Daniel Wikler
Prenatal Diagnosis and Selective Abortion: A Challenge to Practice and Policy | Adrienne Asch
Disability, Prenatal Testing, and Selective Abortion | Bonnie Steinbock
Case Study: Molly and Adam Nash: Using Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis to Save a Sibling | Bonnie Steinbock
Section 2: Assisted Reproduction
The Presumptive Primacy of Procreative Liberty | John Robertson
Instruction on Respect for Human Life in Its Origin and on the Dignity of Procreation | Vatican, Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
What are Families For? Getting to an Ethics of Reproductive Technology | Thomas H. Murray
Case Study: Grade A: The Market for a Yale Woman’s Eggs | Jessica Cohen
Payment for Egg Donation | Bonnie Steinbock
Section 3: Reproductive Cloning
The Case against Cloning-to-Produce-Children | The President’s Council on Bioethics
Reproductive Cloning: Another Look | Bonnie Steinbock
Even If It Worked, Cloning Wouldn’t Bring Her Back | Thomas H. Murray
Recommended Supplementary Reading

PART SIX: Experimentation on Human Subjects
Section 1: Born in Scandal: The Origins of U.S. Research Ethics
The Nuremburg Code
Case Study: The Jewish Chronic Disease Hospital Case | John D. Arras
Case Study: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment | James H. Jones
The Belmont Report: Ethical Principles and Guidelines for the Protection of Human Subjects of Research | The National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research
Section 2: The Ethics of Randomized Clinical Trials
Ethical Difficulties with Randomized Clinical Trials Involving Cancer Patients: Examples from the Field of Gynecologic Oncology | Maurie Markman
Of Mice but Not Men: Problems of the Randomized Clinical Trial | Samuel Hellman and Deborah S. Hellman
A Response to a Purported Ethical Difficulty with Randomized Clinical Trials Involving Cancer Patients | Benjamin Freedman
Section 3: Deprivation and Less Than the Best Standard of Care
Case Study: The Willowbrook Hepatitis Studies | David J. Rothman and Sheila M. Rothman
Unethical Trials of Interventions to Reduce Perinatal Transmission of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus in Developing Countries | Peter Lurie and Sidney M. Wolfe
Case Study: Children and “Minimal Risk” Research: The Kennedy-Krieger Lead Paint Study | Alex John London
AZT Trials and Tribulations | Robert A. Crouch and John D. Arras
The Ambiguity and the Exigency: Clarifying “Standard of Care” Arguments in International Research | Alex John London
Risk Standards for Pediatric Research: Rethinking the Grimes Ruling | David Wendler
Recommended Supplementary Reading

PART SEVEN: Emerging Technologies
Section 1: Behavioral Genetics
Using Genetics to Understand Human Behavior: Promises and Risks | Steven E. Hyman
My Genome, My Self | Steven Pinker
Section 2: Enhancing Humans and Remaking Nature
The Designer Baby Myth | Steven Pinker
Genetic Interventions and the Ethics of Enhancement of Human Beings | Julian Savulescu
The Case Against Perfection: What’s Wrong with Designer Children, Bionic Athletes, and Genetic Engineering | Michael J. Sandel
The Intrinsic Scientific Value of Reprogramming Life | Mark A. Bedau
Section 3: Neuroethics
Neuroethics: A Guide for the Perplexed | Martha J. Farah
Recommended Supplementary Reading