Case Studies in Biomedical Ethics: Decision-Making, Principles, and Cases - Softcover

Veatch, Robert M.; Haddad, Amy; English M.D., Dan D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0195309723 ISBN 13: 9780195309720

Publisher: OUP USA, 2009

Synopsis

We are living in an unprecedented era of biomedical revolution. Medicine is remaking humans, and controversy surrounds such topics as abortion, artificial organs, brain circuitry, eugenics, euthanasia, and gene therapy. At the same time, medical advances are posing complex ethical problems for both patients and professionals.
The most comprehensive and up-to-date collection of its kind, Case Studies in Biomedical Ethics: Decision-Making, Principles, and Cases explores fundamental ethical questions arising from real situations faced by health professionals, patients, and others. Featuring a wide range of more than 100 case studies drawn from current events, court cases, and physicians' experiences, the book is divided into three parts. Part I presents a basic framework for ethical decision-making in healthcare, covering such issues as separating evaluative questions from questions of fact; distinguishing between ethical and nonethical evaluations; and identifying the source of ethical judgments. Expanding upon this framework, Part II explains the ethical principles: beneficence and nonmaleficence, justice, respect for autonomy, veracity, fidelity, and avoidance of killing. Parts I and II provide students with the background to analyze the ethical dilemmas presented in Part III, which features cases on a broad spectrum of issues including abortion, genetics, mental health, confidentiality, health insurance, experimentation on humans, the right to refuse treatment, and death and dying. Each case is accompanied by the authors' commentary, which guides students in considering the issues.
Ideal for undergraduate and graduate courses in biomedical ethics, bioethics, and medical ethics, Case Studies in Biomedical Ethics incorporates opening text boxes in each chapter that cross-reference relevant cases in other chapters. It also includes an appendix of important ethical codes and a glossary of key terms.

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About the Authors

Robert M. Veatch: Professor of Medical Ethics and the former Director of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Professor of Philosophy, Georgetown University; Senior Editor of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal and a former member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Amy M. Haddad: Professor of Pharmacy Sciences, and Director, Center for Health Policy and Ethics, School of Pharmacy and Health Professions, Creighton University.

Dan C. English: Affiliated Scholar, Center for Clinical Bioethics, Georgetown University

Edition details

• Publisher: OUP USA
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0195309723
• ISBN 13: 9780195309720
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 480