Prenatal Testing and Disability Rights

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• As prenatal tests proliferate, the medical and broader communities perceive that such testing is a logical extension of good prenatal care-it helps pa... Lees meer

Accountability

• Hardcover | Engels | Hastings Center Studies in Ethics
• According to a recent Institute of Medicine report, as many as 98,000 Americans die each year as a result of medical error-a figure higher than deaths... Lees meer

Claiming Power Over Life

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• Developments in biotechnology, such as cloning and the decoding of the human genome, are generating questions and choices that traditionally have fall... Lees meer

Promoting Healthy Behavior

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• The government, the media, HMOs, and individual Americans have all embraced programs to promote disease prevention. Yet obesity is up, exercise is dow... Lees meer

The Ethics of Hospital Trustees

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• All manner of medical practitioners have had their scruples dissected ad infinitum . In spite of the attention paid to medical ethics and bioethics, l... Lees meer

Coerced Contraception?

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• Long-acting and reversible contraceptives, such as Norplant and Depo-Provera, have been praised as highly effective, moderately priced, and generally ... Lees meer

Enhancing Human Traits

• Paperback | Engels | Hastings Center Studies in Ethics
• In this volume, scholars from philosophy, sociology, history, theology, women's studies, and law explore the looming ethical and social implications o... Lees meer

What Price Mental Health?

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• Regardless of the fate of national health care reform, public policy makers will have to make difficult and tragic choices about which health services... Lees meer

A World Growing Old

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• For much of the developed world, health care for a surging elderly population looms as one of the most daunting problems of the coming decade. In this... Lees meer

The Goals of Medicine

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• Debates over health care have focused for so long on economics that the proper goals for medicine seem to be taken for granted; yet problems in health... Lees meer

Getting Doctors to Listen

Philip J Boyle

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• This book examines why physicians are often surprisingly reluctant to follow guidelines for treating patients based on research data. It assesses the ... Lees meer