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Author:   John Thomas ,  Wilfred J. Waluchow ,  Elisabeth Boetzkes Gedge
Publisher:   Broadview Press Ltd
Imprint:   Broadview Press Ltd
Edition:   4th Revised edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.408kg
ISBN:  

9781554811724

ISBN 10:   1554811724
Pages:   350
Publication Date:   30 July 2014
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface to the Fourth Edition Acknowledgements Introduction: Ethical Resources for Decision-Making Moral Philosophy Morality versus Ethics Levels of Moral Response A Variety of Perspectives Some Basic Concepts Five Types of Ethical Theory: Mill, Kant, Ross, Aristotle, and Feminist Perspectives The Language of Rights Concluding Thoughts Chapter One: Relationships in Health Care When Physicians and Family Disagree Prescribing Birth Control to Minors Nancy Olivieri, Bioethics, and Industry Funding Ol’ Joe Terminal Illness, Addictions, and Respect An “Over-the-Hill” Surgeon Chapter Two: Health Care in Canada Budget Cutting in Neonatology and Perinatology Social Determinants of Health An Artificial Heart — Allocating Health Care Funding Canada’s Tainted Blood Scandal Chapter Three: Consent Research Involving Alzheimer Patients Non-Consensual Electroconvulsive Shock Therapy Discontinuing Forced Feeding of an Anorexia Nervosa Patient Choosing Not to Vaccinate Religious Conflict over a Life-Saving Blood Transfusion Chapter Four: Reproduction When a Couple Disagree over Abortion Caesarean for the Sake of the Fetus? The Legality and Morality of Contract (Surrogate) Pregnancy The Role of Chantal Daigle’s Boyfriend in Her Abortion Decision Fetal Tissue Transplantation Too Old to Have a Baby? Chapter Five: Fetuses and Newborns Should Treatment Be Withheld from Patients with Severe Cognitive Disabilities? Sex Selection for Non-Medical Reasons Should Fetuses with “Milder Disabilities” Be Aborted? Protecting an “Unborn Child” Saviour Siblings Chapter Six: Death, Dying, and Euthanasia Two Different Requests to Be Left to Die “Don’t Let My Mother Die” “Please Let Me Die” Sue Rodriguez: “Please Help Me to Die” Tracy and Robert Latimer: “It Was Right to Kill MyDaughter” Stephen Dawson: Should Severely Mentally ChallengedPatients Be Treated? The Brain Dead as Teaching Materials Chapter Seven: Research Involving Human Participants Using Infants in Medical Research Projects Diagnosing and Treating Heart Disease in Women Who Owns the Research? The Case of the HeLa Cells Access to Experimental Drugs in Catastrophic Circumstances Pandemic Flu Ethics and Risk Chapter Eight: Scarce Medical Resources and Catastrophic Circumstances Dialysis Machine Shortages: Who Shall Live? Ethics and Humanitarian Aid: Vertical Aid Programs Payment for Plasma Anencephalic Infants as Donors A Baboon Heart for Baby Fae Did Family Instability Justify Non-Treatment of Baby Jesse? Chapter Nine: Genetics The Nuu chah nulth Nation and Arthritis Research Enhancement and Sport Genetic Testing and Disclosure Chapter Ten: Unanalyzed Cases for Further Study Should Restraints Be Used to Correct Self-Destructive Behaviour? Breast Cancer While Pregnant Should Patients Be Informed of Remote Risks of Procedures? Minors as Organ Donors Failed Contraception, Genetic Disorders, and Parental Disagreement To Resuscitate or Not to Resuscitate? CPR and a Nurse’s Responsibility ”Don’t Start the Respirator” Queue-Jumping in the OR Allocation of ICU Beds Vaccination Allocation Genetic Screening and Family Disclosure Index

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Perhaps the best text of its kind for undergraduate courses in Health Care Ethics and Health Science programs. It requires no previous knowledge of philosophy, is full of relevant and interesting case studies, and contains the most up-to-date information concerning health law and precedent-setting cases in a Canadian context. Maybe best of all, it's sure to prove a powerful generator of class discussion. -- David C. Flagel, University of New Brunswick This new and improved edition of Well and Good offers an impressive selection of cases on a broad range of topics. An outstanding resource. -- David Rondel, University of Nevada, Reno Perhaps the best text of its kind for undergraduate courses in Health Care Ethics and Health Science programs. It requires no previous knowledge of philosophy, is full of relevant and interesting case studies, and contains the most up-to-date information concerning health law and precedent-setting cases in a Canadian context. Maybe best of all, it's sure to prove a powerful generator of class discussion. - David C. Flagel, University of New Brunswick This new and improved edition of Well and Good offers an impressive selection of cases on a broad range of topics. An outstanding resource. - David Rondel, University of Nevada, Reno Comments: Perhaps the best text of its kind for undergraduate courses in Health Care Ethics and Health Science programs. It requires no previous knowledge of philosophy, is full of relevant and interesting case studies, and contains the most up-to-date information concerning health law and precedent-setting cases in a Canadian context. Maybe best of all, it's sure to prove a powerful generator of class discussion. - David C. Flagel, University of New Brunswick This new and improved edition of Well and Good offers an impressive selection of cases on a broad range of topics. An outstanding resource. - David Rondel, University of Nevada, Reno Comments on the previous edition: ... superb ... wide in scope but concrete in the way it grapples with these problems. It illuminates both the moral and the technical aspects of the field. - Daniel Callahan, Hastings Center There are so few books like this ... very helpful in showing how ethical theory can be applied in real life. - Mary Bockover, University of California, Santa Barbara Well and Good covers a diverse range of issues using medically detailed cases. I particularly like how it addresses clinic and home settings as well as hospitals. - Connie Perry, Allegheny University of the Health Sciences

“Perhaps the best text of its kind for undergraduate courses in Health Care Ethics and Health Science programs. It requires no previous knowledge of philosophy, is full of relevant and interesting case studies, and contains the most up-to-date information concerning health law and precedent-setting cases in a Canadian context. Maybe best of all, it’s sure to prove a powerful generator of class discussion.” — David C. Flagel, University of New Brunswick “This new and improved edition of Well and Good offers an impressive selection of cases on a broad range of topics. An outstanding resource.” — David Rondel, University of Nevada, Reno

Perhaps the best text of its kind for undergraduate courses in Health Care Ethics and Health Science programs. It requires no previous knowledge of philosophy, is full of relevant and interesting case studies, and contains the most up-to-date information concerning health law and precedent-setting cases in a Canadian context. Maybe best of all, it's sure to prove a powerful generator of class discussion. - David C. Flagel, University of New Brunswick This new and improved edition of Well and Good offers an impressive selection of cases on a broad range of topics. An outstanding resource. - David Rondel, University of Nevada, Reno

Comments: “Perhaps the best text of its kind for undergraduate courses in Health Care Ethics and Health Science programs. It requires no previous knowledge of philosophy, is full of relevant and interesting case studies, and contains the most up-to-date information concerning health law and precedent-setting cases in a Canadian context. Maybe best of all, it’s sure to prove a powerful generator of class discussion.” — David C. Flagel, University of New Brunswick “This new and improved edition of Well and Good offers an impressive selection of cases on a broad range of topics. An outstanding resource.” — David Rondel, University of Nevada, Reno Comments on the previous edition: “… superb … wide in scope but concrete in the way it grapples with these problems. It illuminates both the moral and the technical aspects of the field.” — Daniel Callahan, Hastings Center “There are so few books like this … very helpful in showing how ethical theory can be applied in real life.” — Mary Bockover, University of California, Santa Barbara “Well and Good covers a diverse range of issues using medically detailed cases. I particularly like how it addresses clinic and home settings as well as hospitals.” — Connie Perry, Allegheny University of the Health Sciences

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The late John Thomas taught in the Department of Philosophy at McMaster University for over 30 years. Wilfrid J. Waluchow is Professor of Philosophy and Senator William McMaster Chair in Constitutional Studies at McMaster University and Adjunct Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School. Elisabeth Gedge is Chair of the Department of Philosophy at McMaster University.

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