Notes

Includes bibliographical references. What is the "inviolability of persons"? / Carson Strong -- The substrata of biomedical policy : dichotomies in somatic technology / Lynton Keith Caldwell -- The Church and the restructuring of humans / Albert S. Moraczewski -- Postmodernity and limits on the human body : libertarianism by default / H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr., and Kevin Wm. Wildes -- A tortuous dilemma : maternal inviolability versus fetal medicine / Clifford Grobstein -- Fetal interventions : the biomedical politics of maternal/fetal rights / Cynthia R. Daniels -- Our most important product / George J. Annas -- The prospect of human genetic engineering / Robert L. Sinsheimer -- Manipulating human life : is there no end to it? / Daniel Callahan -- On the road to someday : a personal journey / Andrew H. Malcolm --Limits and possibilities : the patient self-determination act / Elizabeth L. McCloskey -- Advance directives as instruments of moral persuasion / Robert F. Weir --Proposed clinical criteria for physician-assisted suicide / Timothy E. Quill, Christine K. Cassel, and Diane E. Meier -- California proposition 161 : physician-assisted death-terminal condition-initiative statute -- Euthanasia as power and empowerment / David C. Thomasma -- Managing the unmanageable : the case against euthanasia / Carlos F. Gomez -- The changing role of the physician in the care of the dying / Robert J. Miller -- Physician-assisted dying : the conflict with fundamental principles of American law / David Orentlicher -- AIDS and empowerment : the ethical issues / James A. Serafini.

Book Details

• Language: eng
• Physical Description: ix, 287 p. ; 23 cm.

Subjects

• Medical policy -- United States -- Moral and ethical aspects
• Medical ethics -- United States
• Life and death, Power over -- Decision-making
• Medical policy -- United States
• Medical technology
• Right to die -- United States -- Decision-making
• Life and death, Power over -- Decision making
• Right to die -- United States -- Decision making
• Ethics, Medical -- United States
• Right to Die -- United States
• Medicine -- trends
• Ethics -- United States
• Genetic engineering -- United States
• Suicide, Assisted -- United States
• Euthanasia -- United States
• Health Policy -- United States

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