Medical Ethics: Accounts of Ground-Breaking Cases 8th Edition Gregory E. Pence

Medical Ethics: Accounts of Ground-Breaking Cases 8th edition – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9781259907944,1259907945,1259916510,978-1259916519

Product details:

• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1259907945
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 9781259907944
• Author: Gregory Pence 

Medical Ethics: Accounts of Groundbreaking Cases provides an in-depth study of Bioethics authored by a pioneer in the field. This program covers some of the most well-known bioethics cases and the ethical issues those cases present. It also gives an overview of current issues in the medical ethics field. The thought-provoking content affords students the opportunity to think beyond what is presented in the book, enabling them to actively assess what they have read. The Connect course for this offering includes SmartBook, an adaptive reading and study experience which guides students to master, recall, and apply key concepts while providing automatically-graded assessments.

Table of contents:

CHAPTER 1: Good and Bad Ethical Reasoning; Moral Theories and Principles
CHAPTER 2: Requests to Die: Terminal and Nonterminal Patients
CHAPTER 3: Comas: Karen Quinlan, Nancy Cruzan, and Terri Schiavo
CHAPTER 4: Abortion: The Trial of Kenneth Edelin
CHAPTER 5: Assisted Reproduction, Multiple Gestations, Surrogacy, and Elderly Parents
CHAPTER 6: Embryos, Stem Cells, and Reproductive Cloning
CHAPTER 7: Impaired Babies and the Americans with Disabilities Act
CHAPTER 8: Medical Research on Animals
CHAPTER 9: Medical Research on Vulnerable Populations
CHAPTER 10: Ethical Issues in First-Time Organ Surgeries
CHAPTER 11: The God Committee
CHAPTER 12: Using One Baby for Another
CHAPTER 13: Ethical Issues in the Treatment of Intersex and Transgender Persons
CHAPTER 14: Involuntary Psychiatric Commitment and Research on People with Schizophrenia
CHAPTER 15: Ethical Issues in Pre-Symptomatic Testing for Genetic Disease: Nancy Wexler, Angelina Jolie, Diabetes and Alzheimer’s
CHAPTER 16: Ethical Issues in Stopping the Global Spread of Infectious Diseases: AIDS, Ebola, and Zika
CHAPTER 17: Ethical Issues of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
CHAPTER 18: Ethical Issues in Medical Enhancement (and their effect on people with Disabilities)
CHAPTER 19: Ethical Issues in Treating Alcoholism and Addiction
CHAPTER 20: The Ethics of Weight Management

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