"An important contribution to a debate that will continue for some time." —Health and Canadian Society
"Insightful and thought-provoking.... As Caplan has demonstrated so clearly... we would all be better off if the ethicists spoke first and not last." —The Washington Post
"Caplan’s views are important and instructive.... [This] book represents some of his best work." —New England Journal of Medicine
"Caplan’s [book] is thought provoking, insightful, and well argued. I recommend it highly."—The Journal of the American Medical Association
"... a generously illustrated discourse on method in medical and practical ethics." —Ethics
A member of the President’s Task Force on National Health Care Reform examines some of the most controversial biomedical issues of our time.
| Acknowledgments | ||
| Introduction | ||
| Pt. I | The nature of applied ethics | |
| 1 | Can applied ethics be effective in health care and should it strive to be? | 3 |
| 2 | Moral experts and moral expertise: Does either exist? | 18 |
| Pt. II | Ethical issues in animal and human experimentation | |
| 3 | Beastly conduct: ethical issues in animal experimentation | 43 |
| 4 | Moral community and the responsibility of scientists | 59 |
| 5 | On privacy and confidentiality in social science research | 70 |
| 6 | Is there a duty to serve as a subject in biomedical research? | 85 |
| Pt. III | Advances in reproduction and genetics | |
| 7 | New technologies in reproduction--new ethical problems | 103 |
| 8 | Mapping morality: ethics and the human genome project | 118 |
| Pt. IV | Transplants and other unnatural acts | |
| 9 | Requests, gifts, and obligations: the ethics of organ procurement | 145 |
| 10 | If I were a rich man could I buy a pancreas? Problems in the policies and criteria used to allocate organs for transplantation in the United States | 158 |
| 11 | Ethical issues raised by research involving xenografts | 178 |
| Pt. V | Aging, chronic illness, and rehabilitation | |
| 12 | Is aging a disease? | 195 |
| 13 | Let wisdom find a way: the concept of competency in the care of the elderly | 210 |
| 14 | Is medical care the right prescription for chronic illness? | 221 |
| 15 | Informed consent and provider/patient relationships in rehabilitation medicine | 240 |
| 16 | Can autonomy be saved? | 256 |
| Pt. VI | Money, medicine, and morality | |
| 17 | The high cost of technological development: a caveat for policymakers | 285 |
| 18 | Hard data is the only answer to hard choices in health care | 302 |
| 19 | Ethics, cost-containment, and the allocation of scarce resources | 315 |
| Index | 337 |
Overview
"An important contribution to a debate that will continue for some time." —Health and Canadian Society
"Insightful and thought-provoking.... As Caplan has demonstrated so clearly... we would all be better off if the ethicists spoke first and not last." —The Washington Post
"Caplan’s views are important and instructive.... [This] book represents some of his best work." —New England Journal of Medicine
"Caplan’s [book] is thought provoking, insightful, and well argued. I recommend it highly."—The Journal of the American Medical Association
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