In this collection of eight provocative essays, the author sets forth his views on the need to replace patient-centered bioethics with family-centered bioethics. Starting with a critique of the awkward language with which philosphers argue the ethics of personal relationships, the book goes on to present a general statement on the necessity of family-centered bioethics. He reflects on proxy decisions, the effects of elder care on the family, the financial and lifestyle consequences of long-term care, and physician-assisted suicide from the perspective of the family.
In this collection of eight provocative essays, the author sets forth his views on the need to replace patient-centered bioethics with family-centered...
In Genetic Dilemmas and the Child's Right to an OpenFuture, Davis examines perplexing medical cases as a means to discussion of ethical dilemmas raised by the availability of new reproductive technologies.
In Genetic Dilemmas and the Child's Right to an OpenFuture, Davis examines perplexing medical cases as a means to discussion of eth...
Written with poignancy and compassion, Do We Still NeedDoctors? is a personal account from the front lines of the moral and political battles that are reshaping America's health care system.
Written with poignancy and compassion, Do We Still NeedDoctors?...
In The Limits and Lies of Human Genetic Research, Jonathan Kaplan weighs in on the controversial subject of the roles genes play in determining aspects of physical and behavioral human variation. Limits and Lies makes the case that neither the information we have on genes, nor on the environment, is sufficient to explain the complex variations among humans.
In The Limits and Lies of Human Genetic Research, Jonathan Kaplan weighs in on the controversial subject of the roles genes play in determini...
In The Limits and Lies of Human Genetic Research, Jonathan Kaplan weighs in on the controversial subject of the roles genes play in determining aspects of physical and behavioral human variation. Limits and Lies makes the case that neither the information we have on genes, nor on the environment, is sufficient to explain the complex variations among humans.
In The Limits and Lies of Human Genetic Research, Jonathan Kaplan weighs in on the controversial subject of the roles genes play in determini...
The question of how societies respond to our bodies' ills is one which has had tremendous hold on contemporary imaginations. This reader includes selections by the best thinkers in the ethics of health care, bioethics and philosophy of health care. Unlike the majority of collections that serve undergraduate and graduate courses in bioethics, this book stresses a wider range of questions and invites enquiry that should broaden the range of discourse.
The question of how societies respond to our bodies' ills is one which has had tremendous hold on contemporary imaginations. This reader includes sele...
Physician Assisted Suicide is a cross-disciplinary collection of essays from philosophers, physicians, theologians, social scientists, lawyers and economists. As the first book to consider the implications of the Supreme Court decisions in Washington v. Glucksburg and Vacco v. Quill concerning physician-assisted suicide from a variety of perspectives, this collection advances informed, reflective, vigorous public debate.
Physician Assisted Suicide is a cross-disciplinary collection of essays from philosophers, physicians, theologians, social scientists, lawyer...
The Patient in the Family diagnoses the ways in which the worlds of home and hospital misunderstand each other. The authors explore how medicine, through its new reproductive technologies, is altering the structure of families, how families can participate more fully in medical decision-making, and how to understand the impact on families when medical advances extend life but not vitality.
The Patient in the Family diagnoses the ways in which the worlds of home and hospital misu...