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In the final chapter, Walton shows how his method functions in light of the real-life complexities of the clinical encounter and how it bears on ethical questions concerning health-care policy, attitudes toward treatment and toward the medical profession, reasonableness of expectations, and the setting of realistic goals of treatment.

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Prenatal testing for genetic abnormalities has transformed pregnancy and motherhood. Using sociological research, this book analyzes the social-psychological and ethical implications of invasive prenatal testing, particularly CVS and amniocentesis.

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Testing for genetic abnormalities has transformed pregnancy and motherhood, and the recent discoveries by the Human Genome Project affect us all. Among the issues discussed in the new Afterword are the spread of prenatal testing, the changing meanings of pregnancy, and the perils and promises of the Human Genome Project.

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This book tries to explain and justify a woman's moral and legal rights in pregnancy and explores the extent of her moral duties toward the fetus.

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What caused physicians in the USA to confront committees, forms, and active patients Tracing the revolution that transformed the doctor-patient relationship, this book takes the reader into the labouratory and the examining room, tracing the development of new technologies and social attitudes.

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These problems are defined using multicriterion approach and resolved through a series of focus group discussions that involve medical and lay personnel. This is must reading for lay people, medical personal, and policymakers concerned with bioethics and medical philosophy issues.

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The stem cells at the center of the cluster have the potential to become specialized cells that could one day benefit millions of Americans. Confounding the traditional polarized politics of the country previously dominated by anti-abortion and pro-choice politics, the politics of stem cell research may be redrawing the contours of public life.

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Diagnosed with terminal cancer, Irene Anderson was determined to die with dignity. 1071 days later, her husband Ross fulfilled her wish, helping her to end her life. Unflinchingly, Ross describes the aftermath: the overwhelming loss and confusion, the inevitable sense of guilt and the looming prospect of criminal proceedings.

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For more than a century, the American medical profession insisted that doctors be rigorously trained in medical science and dedicated to professional ethics. Patients revered their doctors as representatives of a sacred vocation. Do we still trust doctors with the same conviction In Trusting Doctors, Jonathan Imber attributes the development of pa

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This reference provides a treatment of the laws, documents and policies relating to the difficult issues that arise at the end of life. It provides commentaries on the refusal of life-sustaining treatment and the Patient Self-Determination Act, as well as legal references and hospital policies.

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A firsthand account from a CDC insider on the link between vaccine and autism

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A compelling and beautifully written exploration of the topic which breaks all taboos: assisted death.

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This groundbreaking, reader-friendly guide to contemporary ethical issues informs and challenges health care professionals, students, and faculty with a thorough and compassionate examination of the dilemmas faced when providing care for individuals suffering from substance use problems or addiction.

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A shocking expos of the dangerously under-regulated medical device industry, revealing the corruption, greed, and deceit that has helped make medical interventions a leading cause of death in America.

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A profound, provocative, and addictively engaging book of open-ended medical cases that ask, "What would you do"

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Asylums are supposed to be in the past. However, though the buildings were closed, many of the practices lived on. In fact, more law-abiding Americans today are being involuntarily committed and forcibly treated for their own good than at any time in history.

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Exploitation is a concept in ordinary moral thought that has not often been analyzed outside the Marxist tradition. This work reflects on the meaning of exploitation, to ask whether and when clinical research in developing countries counts as exploitative, and to consider what can be done to minimize the possibility of exploitation.

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Challenging Rawlsian approaches to health policy, the author develops an account of just health that is sensitive to considerations of luck and personal responsibility, arguing that people's health and the health care they receive are just only when society works to neutralize the effects of bad luck.

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An eye-opening look at Big Pharma's unethical and exploitative drug trials in the global south - the true story behind The Constant Gardener'.'