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Author:   James F. Childress
Publisher:   Indiana University Press
Imprint:   Indiana University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 3.10cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.821kg
ISBN:  

9780253332189

ISBN 10:   0253332184
Pages:   400
Publication Date:   22 March 1997
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Preface Acknowledgments Part One: Principles, Metaphors, and Analogies 1. Metaphor and Analogy in Bioethics 2. Ethical Theories, Principles, and Casuistry in Bioethics: An Interpretation and Defense of Principlism 3. Metaphors and Models of Doctor-Patient Relationships: Their Implications for Autonomy with Mark Siegler Part Two: Respect for Autonomy: Its Implications and Limitations 4. If You Let Them, They'd Stay in Bed All Morning: The Principle of Respect for Autonomy and the Tyranny of Regulation in Nursing Home Life 5. How Much Should the Cancer Patient Know and Decide? with Bettina Schoene-Seifert 6. Mandatory HIV Screening and Testing Part Three: Termination of Life-Sustaining Treatment 7. ""Who Is a Doctor to Decide Whether a Person Lives or Dies?"": Reflections on Dax's Case with Courtney S. Campbell 8. Must Patients Always Be Given Food and Water? with Joanne Lynn 9. When Is It Morally Justifiable to Discontinue Medical Nutrition and Hydration? Part Four: Allocation of Health Care 10. Who Shall Live When Not All Can Live? 11. Triage in Intensive Care: The Possibilities and Limitations of a Metaphor 12. Fairness in the Allocation and Delivery of Health Care: A Case Study of Organ Transplantation 13. Rights to Health Care in a Democratic Society Part Five: Obtaining Organs and Tissues for Transplantation 14. Ethical Criteria for Policies to Obtain Organs for Transplantation 15. Human Body Parts as Property: An Assessment of Ownership, Sales, and Financial Incentives 16. Ethics, Public Policy, and Human Fetal Tissue Transplantation Research Notes Index"

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"""This is a valuable clarification, re-statement and defence of principlism as an approach to applied ethics. It is strongly recommended to many teachers of bioethics ..."" - Journal of the American Medical Association ""Childress' book deserves careful study by all concerned with the ethical aspect of contemporary biomedical challenges."" - Science Books & Films ""An ideal supplement for a graduate seminar on bioethics or for upper-division undergraduates needing more information in this area."" - Choice"

This is a valuable clarification, re-statement and defence of principlism as an approach to applied ethics. It is strongly recommended to many teachers of bioethics ... - Journal of the American Medical Association Childress' book deserves careful study by all concerned with the ethical aspect of contemporary biomedical challenges. - Science Books & Films An ideal supplement for a graduate seminar on bioethics or for upper-division undergraduates needing more information in this area. - Choice

Author Information

James F. Childress is the Edwin B. Kyle Professor of Religious Studies and Professor of Medical Education at the University of Virginia, where he also co-directs the Virginia Health Policy Center. He is the author of over a hundred articles, many of them in biomedical ethics; his several books include Principles of Biomedical Ethics (with Tom L. Beauchamp), Who Should Decide? Paternalism in Health Care, and Priorities in Biomedical Ethics.

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