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Medical Ethics: Evolution, Rights and the Physician

Medical Ethics: Evolution, Rights and the Physician

Shenkin, Henry A.
Shenkin, H. a.
Shenkin Henry

Hardcover

Series: International Studies in Human Rights, Book 17

PhilosophyMedical Reference

ISBN10: 0792310314
ISBN13: 9780792310310
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Dec 31 1990
Pages: 508
Weight: 2.01
Height: 1.25 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
One: An Evolutionary View of Ethics, Rights and the Doctor-Patient Relationship.- 1. Ethical Theory.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Philosophical Considerations.- 3. Biological Considerations.- 4. Discussion.- 5. Conclusions.- 2. Dual Evolution: Ethics, The Law, Rights.- 1. Ethics and the Law.- 2. The Concept of Rights.- 3. Conclusions.- 3. Bases for Medical Ethics.- 1. Origin of Medical Ethics and the Doctor-Patient Relationship.- 2. Rights and the Practice of Medicine.- 2.1 Autonomy and Beneficence.- 2.2 Non-Maleficence.- 2.3 Justice.- 2.4 Confidentiality.- 2.5 Patients' Right to Medical Care.- 2.6 Patients' Right to Know.- 3. Summary and Conclusions.- Summary and Conclusion to Part One.- Two: A Physician's Perspective on Problems In Medical Ethics (From an Evolutionary Ethical Point of View).- 4. Public Health Policy and Rights (AIDS).- 1. Introduction to the Problem.- 2. Testing for HIV.- 3. Problems in AIDS Control.- 4. Conclusions.- 5. Public Health Policy and Individual Rights (DRUGS).- 1. Drug Addictions (and Alcoholism).- 1.1 Introduction.- 1.2 Alcoholism.- 1.3 Testing for Drugs.- 1.4 Controlling the Use of Drugs.- 1.5 Summary and Discussion.- 2. Drugs in Sports.- 6. Public Health Policy and Individual Rights (Continued).- 1. Rights and Psychiatry.- 2. Rights of the Handicapped and Disabled.- 3. Testing for Genetic Disease.- 7. Experimentation and Research.- 1. Research on Humans.- 2. Animal Experimentation.- 3. Biotechnology (Genetic Engineering).- 4. The Human Genome.- 8. Problems of Reproduction - Abortion (with notes on contraception).- 1. Discussion and Conclusions.- 9. Problems of Reproduction - Artificial Conception.- 1. Artificial Reproduction.- 1.1 Artificial Insemination.- 1.2In VitroFertilization.- 1.3 Surrogacy.- 2. Population Problems.- 3. Discussion and Conclusions (abortion, artificial conception and population problems).- 10. Dying.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Infanticide.- 3. Euthanasia.- 4. Discussion and Conclusions.- 11. Transplantation (with additional notes on the rationing of medical care).- 1. Transplantations.- 2. Discussion.- 3. Rationing.- Summary and Conclusions to Part Two.- References.

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