Author:
Gutmann, Amy, author.
Edition Statement:First edition.
ImprintNew York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2019]
Description336 pages ; 25 cm
Note:Introduction: A duty to tell -- Part one. New Voices -- Changing times -- Bioethics goes public -- The public's health -- Part two. Matters of Life and Death -- Uneasy deaths -- The high price of unfair health care -- Foraging for ethics -- Part three. Moral Science -- Human experiments -- Reproductive technologies -- Opening cell doors -- Epilogue: Transforming minds.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-315) and index.
Note:Americans today pay far more for health care while having among the lowest life expectancies and highest infant mortality of any affluent nation. Gutmann and Moreno explain how bioethics came to dominate the national spotlight, leading and responding to a revolution in doctor-patient relations, a burgeoning world of organ transplants, and new reproductive technologies that benefit millions but create a host of legal and ethical challenges. They address head-on the most fundamental challenges in American health care, while exploring the American paradox of wanting to have it all without paying the price. --Adapted from jacket.
