Bioethical and evolutionary approaches to medicine and the law / W. Noel Keyes.
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| Other title: | Pre-publication title: Bioethics. |
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| Language: | English |
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Chicago, Ill. :
American Bar Association,
[2007]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- PART I : SOURCES OF BIOETHICS FOR MEMBERS OF HOSPITALS, ETHICS COMMITTEES, AND REGULATORS OF HEALTHCARE: Drawing lines in bioethics : medicine and the law
- The creation and evolution of the universe and humankind
- Religious sources, their restrictions, and their possible bioethical standards
- Some differences and difficulties with science and philosophy in the search for bioethical standards
- Autonomy, responsibility, and informed consent
- Ethics, bioethics and ethics committees
- PART II : THE ISSUES BIOETHICS MUST CONTINUE TO SOLVE DURING THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY: To conceive or not to conceive : the ethics of family planning and birth control
- Infertility, impotence, and cloning
- The choice of abortion
- Fetal abuse and severely defective newborns
- Restrictions on the sources and allocation of organ transplants
- PART III : THE RIGHT TO DIE WITH DIGNITY: The right to dignity in the dying process
- Improvements needed in the twenty-first century right to die
- End-of-life choices of terminal patients
- PART IV : BIOETHICS AND FUTURE SOMATIC AND GERMLINE GENE THERAPY: Bioethics on genetics superseding the Human Genome Project
- Epilogue
- Appendix : environmental crises at the turn of the third millennium
- Appendix B : some view on medicine in the two Chinas and Tibet at the turn of the millennium
- Appendix C : False Claims Act settlements and ruling in healthcare organizations
- Appendix D : millennia
- Appendix E : genetic research and economic advantage of abbreviated new drug applications.