Ethical Issues in Health Care on the Frontiers of the Twenty-First Century

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Dedication. Ethical Issues in Health Care on the Frontiers of the Twenty First Century S. Wear, et al. Preface: The Continued Role of Biomedical Ethics in the Next Millenium J. Naughton. Keynote Address: Bioethics at the End of the Millenium: Fashioning Health Care Policy in the Absence of a Moral Consensus H.T. Engelhardt. Part I: The Dilemma of Funding Health Care. The Dilemma of Funding Health Care S. Wear. Toward Multiple Standards of Health Care Delivery: Takin Moral and Economic Diversity Seriously H.T. Engelhardt, Jr. A Preventive Ethics Approach to the Managed Practice of Medicine: Putting the History of Medical Ethics to Work L.B. McCullough. Saving Lives, Saving Money: Shepherding the Role of Technology E.H. Morreim. Part II: The Human Genome Project. The Human Genome, Difference, and Disease: Nature, Culture, and New Narratives for Medicine's Future J.J. Bono. Concepts of Disease After the Human Genome Project E. Juengst. From Promises to Progress to Portents of Peril: Public Responses to Genetic Engineering D. Nelkin. PKU and Procreative Liberty: Historical and Ethical Considerations D.B. Paul. Everybody's Got Something J.D. Moreno. Part III: The Physician/Patient Relationship. The Physician/Patient Relationship G. Logue. A Medicine of Neighbors K. Montgomery. Trust, Institutions, and the Physician-Patient Relationship: Implications for Continuity of Care J.R. Rosenbaum. Can Relationships Heal - At a Reasonable Cost? H. Brody. Values and the Physician-Patient Relationship S. Devito. General Bibliography A. McEvoy. Notes on Contributors. Index.