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A Primer for Health Care Ethics: Essays for a Pluralistic Society [Paperback]

Jean De Blois (Author), Patrick Norris (Author), Kevin O'Rourke (Author), Jean Deblois (Author)
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0878405623 978-0878405626 September 1994 1

From Harry and Louise through the McCaughey septuplets, this book explains stories and issues in health care ethics that have appeared in the news media. Written for the general reader in a pluralistic society, it outlines and applies principles of justice from the Catholic tradition to contemporary problems that increasingly affect us all.

This second edition contains extensive new material and new topics, including physician-assisted suicide, managed care, organ donation, genetic testing, cloning, and the question of futility. Aimed at a wide audience, this book will also be useful for introductory ethics courses in colleges and high schools.

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"Mak[es] complex ethical principles and cases understandable to the medical professional and layperson alike." -- Health Progress

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"This remarkable work converses briefly but importantly with virtually every aspect of health care ethics... Thoughtful, engaging, and sound." -- Choice, reviewing a previous edition or volume

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Product Details

  • Paperback: 255 pages
  • Publisher: Georgetown Univ Pr; 1 edition (September 1994)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0878405623
  • ISBN-13: 978-0878405626
  • Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.9 x 0.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,202,403 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Health care ethics, May 22, 2009
I ordered this book for one of my college courses and I received in no time.This book was a requirement to take the class.Much cheaper here on Amazon.com then to purchase from the college.Has some really good information about the healthcare decisions that need to be made.
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Ethics is the discipline or science by which we determine which human actions are good and which are bad. Read the first page
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proximate intention, remote intention, fatal pathology, removing life support, futile therapy, mandated choice, finis operantis, finis operis, substantive independence, grave burden, artificial hydration, nontherapeutic research, indirect abortion, futility debate, health care ethics, multifetal pregnancy, anencephalic infant, proxy consent, withdrawing life support, difficult ethical decisions, moral object, withdrawing treatment
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Supreme Court, United States, New York, Jehovah's Witness, Judith Curren, Janet Adkins, American Academy of Neurology, Jack Kevorkian, Leon Kass, Nancy Beth Cruzan, New England Journal of Medicine, Patient Self-Determination Act, Government Printing Office, Hastings Center Report, Pope Pius, Advance Directives Revisited, All's Well, Can Liberty Sustain Itself, Conceiving One Child, Discontinuing Life Support, Ends Well, Jane Roe, Kevorkian's Dilemma, Medical Ethics Needs Accurate Distinctions, Obtaining Organs
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