If I were a rich man could I buy a pancreas? : and other essays on the ethics of health care / by Arthur L. Caplan.
1992
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Title
If I were a rich man could I buy a pancreas? : and other essays on the ethics of health care / by Arthur L. Caplan.
Published
Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [1992]
Copyright
©1992
Call Number
RA418 .C37 1992
ISBN
0253313074 (alk. paper)
Description
xvii, 348 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)24430844
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Pt. I
The nature of applied ethics
1Can applied ethics be effective in health care and should it strive to be?
3
2Moral experts and moral expertise: Does either exist?
18
Pt. II
Ethical issues in animal and human experimentation
3Beastly conduct: ethical issues in animal experimentation
43
4Moral community and the responsibility of scientists
59
5On privacy and confidentiality in social science research
70
6Is there a duty to serve as a subject in biomedical research?
85
Pt. III
Advances in reproduction and genetics
7New technologies in reproduction--new ethical problems
103
8Mapping morality: ethics and the human genome project
118
Pt. IV
Transplants and other unnatural acts
9Requests, gifts, and obligations: the ethics of organ procurement
145
10If 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
11Ethical issues raised by research involving xenografts
178
Pt. V
Aging, chronic illness, and rehabilitation
12Is aging a disease?
195
13Let wisdom find a way: the concept of competency in the care of the elderly
210
14Is medical care the right prescription for chronic illness?
221
15Informed consent and provider/patient relationships in rehabilitation medicine
240
16Can autonomy be saved?
256
Pt. VI
Money, medicine, and morality
17The high cost of technological development: a caveat for policymakers
285
18Hard data is the only answer to hard choices in health care
302
19Ethics, cost-containment, and the allocation of scarce resources
315
Index
337