Medical ethics / [print]
Noel Merino, book editor.
- Detroit : Greenhaven Press, (c)2011.
- 222 pages ; 23 cm.
- Current controversies .
- Current controversies. .
Overview : the health care system Rationing health care is ethical and necessary Health care rationing should not be justified by unethical beliefs Universal health care provided by the government is morally required Government intervention in health care is immoral and impractical Health care is a right, not a privilege Overview : organ transplantation The sale of kidneys for transplantation is ethical Charity, not money, should guide kidney transplantation Individuals should become organ donors to stop organ sales A system of presumed consent is not a good way to increase available organs Overview : reproductive ethics Unmarried individuals and homosexuals should have access to reproductive technologies Surrogacy can be an ethical solution to infertility Fertility doctors are in no position to consider children's well-being Unmarried individuals and homosexuals do not have a right to reproductive technologies Outsourced surrogacy is a form of exploitation Fertility doctors must consider children's well-being Overview : end-of-life issues The right to die necessitates assistance from physicians It is ethical for doctors to participate in death penalty executions Doctors must respect the autonomy of pregnant women regarding abortion Doctors and nurses should never take part in euthanasia There is no humane way of performing death penalty executions It is ethical for doctors to refuse to perform abortion Public Agenda -- Peter Singer -- Raymond Dennehy -- New Republic -- Lin Zinser, Paul Hsieh -- Bernie Sanders -- The Gift of a Lifetime -- Cord Jefferson -- Gerald D. Coleman -- William Saletan -- Gilbert Meilaender -- Marcia Clemmitt -- Ethics Committee of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine -- Sudesh Kumar -- Josephine Johnston -- Jennifer Roback Morse -- Nayantara Mallya -- Thomas H. Murray -- Public Agenda -- Jacob M. Appel -- Dudley Sharp -- Howard Minkoff, Lynn M. Paltrow -- Jean Echlin -- PLoS Medicine Editors -- Daniel Allott, Matt Bowman.