Well and Good: A Case Study Approach to Health Care Ethics

ISBN-13: 9781554811724 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 336 str.

John E. Thomas; Wilfrid J. Waluchow; Elisabeth Gedge

Opis

A diverse and thought-provoking collection of case studies in health care ethics.

Spis treści

Preface to the Fourth Edition
Acknowledgements

Introduction: Ethical Resources for Decision-Making

1. Moral Philosophy
2. Morality versus Ethics
3. Levels of Moral Response
4. A Variety of Perspectives
5. Some Basic Concepts
6. Five Types of Ethical Theory: Mill, Kant, Ross, Aristotle, and Feminist Perspectives
7. The Language of Rights
8. Concluding Thoughts

Chapter One: Relationships in Health Care

1. When Physicians and Family Disagree
2. Prescribing Birth Control to Minors
3. Nancy Olivieri, Bioethics, and Industry Funding
4. Ol’ Joe Terminal Illness, Addictions, and Respect
5. An “Over-the-Hill” Surgeon

Chapter Two: Health Care in Canada

1. Budget Cutting in Neonatology and Perinatology
2. Social Determinants of Health
3. An Artificial Heart — Allocating Health Care Funding
4. Canada’s Tainted Blood Scandal

Chapter Three: Consent

1. Research Involving Alzheimer Patients
2. Non-Consensual Electroconvulsive Shock Therapy
3. Discontinuing Forced Feeding of an Anorexia Nervosa Patient
4. Choosing Not to Vaccinate
5. Religious Conflict over a Life-Saving Blood Transfusion

Chapter Four: Reproduction

1. When a Couple Disagree over Abortion
2. Caesarean for the Sake of the Fetus?
3. The Legality and Morality of Contract (Surrogate) Pregnancy
4. The Role of Chantal Daigle’s Boyfriend in Her Abortion Decision
5. Fetal Tissue Transplantation
6. Too Old to Have a Baby?

Chapter Five: Fetuses and Newborns

1. Should Treatment Be Withheld from Patients with Severe Cognitive Disabilities?
2. Sex Selection for Non-Medical Reasons
3. Should Fetuses with “Milder Disabilities” Be Aborted?
4. Protecting an “Unborn Child”
5. Saviour Siblings

Chapter Six: Death, Dying, and Euthanasia

1. Two Different Requests to Be Left to Die
1. “Don’t Let My Mother Die”
2. “Please Let Me Die”
2. Sue Rodriguez: “Please Help Me to Die”
3. Tracy and Robert Latimer: “It Was Right to Kill MyDaughter”
4. Stephen Dawson: Should Severely Mentally ChallengedPatients Be Treated?
5. The Brain Dead as Teaching Materials

Chapter Seven: Research Involving Human Participants

1. Using Infants in Medical Research Projects
2. Diagnosing and Treating Heart Disease in Women
3. Who Owns the Research? The Case of the HeLa Cells
4. Access to Experimental Drugs in Catastrophic Circumstances
5. Pandemic Flu Ethics and Risk

Chapter Eight: Scarce Medical Resources and Catastrophic Circumstances

1. Dialysis Machine Shortages: Who Shall Live?
2. Ethics and Humanitarian Aid: Vertical Aid Programs
3. Payment for Plasma
4. Anencephalic Infants as Donors
5. A Baboon Heart for Baby Fae
6. Did Family Instability Justify Non-Treatment of Baby Jesse?

Chapter Nine: Genetics

1. The Nuu chah nulth Nation and Arthritis Research
2. Enhancement and Sport
3. Genetic Testing and Disclosure

Chapter Ten: Unanalyzed Cases for Further Study

1. Should Restraints Be Used to Correct Self-Destructive Behaviour?
2. Breast Cancer While Pregnant
3. Should Patients Be Informed of Remote Risks of Procedures?
4. Minors as Organ Donors
5. Failed Contraception, Genetic Disorders, and Parental Disagreement
6. To Resuscitate or Not to Resuscitate?
7. CPR and a Nurse’s Responsibility
8. ”Don’t Start the Respirator”
9. Queue-Jumping in the OR
10. Allocation of ICU Beds
11. Vaccination Allocation
12. Genetic Screening and Family Disclosure

Index