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Book SynopsisA renowned ethicist explores problem areas in biomedical ethics and shows how principles, metaphors, and analogies interact in practical reasoning.
Trade Review"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
Table of ContentsPreface
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
