Living and Dying Well

1996. Auflage 1996
ISBN: 978-0-306-45171-3
Verlag: Springer Us

Buch, Englisch, 362 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 1600 g

Reihe: Critical Issues in Social Justice

takes an informed, interdisciplinary approach to the problems, data, theory, and procedures that a just society must consider when establishing policies regarding human life and death. Leading psychologist Lewis Petrinovich expands on the controversial arguments developed in his earlier work, , and considers such contemporary issues as: the morality of human genetic screening and of the Human Genome Project; organ transplants; the allowance of suicide and euthanasia; and physicians assisting in the dying process.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Petrinovich, Lewis

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Public Health, Gesundheitsmanagement, Gesundheitsökonomie, Gesundheitspolitik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Angewandte Ethik & Soziale Verantwortung Medizinische Ethik
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizinische Ethik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Objectives and Background Principles.- 2. Genetic Screening.- 3. The Human Genome Project.- 4. Death and Its Criteria.- 5. Organ Transplants.- 6. Suicide and Euthanasia: Moral and Legal Issues.- 7. Euthanasia: Moral and Medical Issues.- 8. Medical Ethics and Hospital Review Boards.- 9. Health-Care Policy: Issues.- 10. Two Proposed Health-Care Plans: Oregon Rationing and Managed Competition.- 11. Problems in Achieving Health-Care Reform.- 12. A Single-Payer National Health Plan.- 13. Moral, Medical, and Financial Issues.- 14. The Great Health-Care Debate.- 15. Epilogue.- References.- Author Index.