Medical ethics / created by Michael Wilcockson

Includes an index

1. Doctors and patients: 1. Doctors ethics: 2. Conduct: confidentiality and privacy: 3. Resources: 4. Medical ethics and the law: Study Guide: 2. Personhood and the value of life: 1. What is a person?: 2. Sanctity of life arguments: 3. Quality of life arguments: Study Guide: 3. Abortion: 1. Women's autonomy and rights: 2. The personhood problem: 3. The law and abortion: 4. Normative ethical responses to abortion: Study Guide: 4. Euthanasua: 1. A problem of definition: 2. Ethics of suicide: 3. The law on suicide and euthanasia: 4. Normative ethical responses to abortion: Study Guide: 5. Assisted reproduction: 1. Infertility and the right to a child: 2. Surrogacy: 3. In vitro fertilisation: Study Guide: 6. Embryo research: 1. The reasons for embryo research: 2. The law and embryo research: 3. Normative ethical responses to embryo research: Study Guide: 7. Gene therapy and the use of stem cells: 1. Types of therapy: 2. Risks and benefits: 3. Genetic enhancement: 4. Screening and knowledge: 5. The use of stem cells: 6. Normative ethical responses to gene therapy and the use of: stem cells: Study Guide: 8. Organ transplantation: 1. Organ transplant dilemmas: 2. The law and organ transplantation: 3. Receiving an organ.: 4. Dead donors: 5. Live donors: 6. Commercial aspects of organ transplantation: 7. Alternative organ sources: 8. Normative eithcal responses to organ transplantation: Study Guide: 9. Human cloning: 1. Why clone?: 2. The law and human cloning: 3. Risks of cloning: 4. Nature, human nature and free will: 5. The use of animals: chimeras and hybrids: 6. Normative ethical responses to human cloning: Study Guide: Glossary: Further reading: Index

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