Am I my brother's keeper?: the ethical frontiers of biomedicine

Abstract

Introduction Part I. Research, Experimentation and Innovation 1. And Baby Makes Moral Muddles 2. The Intrusion of Evil: The Use of Data from Unethical Medical Experiments 3. Have a Heart? The Ethical Lessons of the Development of the Total Artificial Heart 4. A Long, Strange Trip It's Been: The Debate Over the Use of Fetal Tissue for Transplantation Research Part II. Starting and Stopping Medical Treatment for the Very Young and Very Old 5. Hard Cases Make Bad Law: The Legacy of the Baby Doe Controversy 6. Analogies to the Holocaust and Contemporary Bioethical Disputes About Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia 7. Will Dr. Kevorkian Kill Hospice? 8. Odds and Ends Part III. Transplantation 9. No Sale: Markets, Organs, and Tissues 10. Is the Use of Animal Organs for Transplants Immoral? 11. Am I My Brother's Keeper? Ethics and the Use of Living Donors Part IV. Health Policy 12. Dead as a Doornail 13. Sinners, Saints, and Access to Health Care 14. The Ethics of Gatekeepers Part V. What Is Your Doctor Trying to Do to You? 15. Who Says YouOre Sick? 16. Curing What Ails the Medical Model 17. If Gene Therapy Is the Cure, WhatOs the Disease? 18. WhatOs Wrong with Eugenics? References Index 'Contents: Introduction Part IV. Health Policy Part I. Research, Experimentation and Innovation 12. Dead as a Doornail 1. And Baby MakesNMoral Muddles 13. Sinners, Saints, and Access to Health Care 2. The Intrusion of Evil: The Use of Data from Unethical Medical Experiments 14. The Ethics of Gatekeepers 3. Have a Heart? The Ethical Lessons of the Development of the Total Artificial Heart 4. OWhat A Long, Strange Trip ItOs BeenO: The Debate over the Use of Fetal Tissue Part V. What Is Your Doctor Trying to Do to You? for Transplantation Research 15. Who Says You're Sick? 16. Curing What Ails the Medical Model Part II. Starting and Stopping Medical Treatment for the Very Young and Very Old 17. If Gene Therapy Is the Cure, What's the Disease? 5. Hard Cases Make Bad Law: The Legacy of the Baby Doe Controversy18. WhatOs Wrong with Eugenics? 6. Analogies to the Holocaust and Contemporary Bioethical Disputes References about Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia Index 7. Will Dr. Kevorkian Kill Hospice? 8. Odds and Ends Part III. Transplantation 9. No Sale: Markets, Organs, and Tissues 10. Is the Use of Animal Organs for Transplants Immoral? 11. Am I My Brother's Keeper? Ethics and the Use of Living Donors