Contributor
Beauchamp, Tom L.
Edition Statement:2nd ed.
Imprint:Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Prentice Hall, c1996.
Descriptionxiv, 458 p. ; 23 cm.
Note:The Definition of Death. - Defining Death: Medical, Legal and Ethical Issues in the Definition of Death / President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research. - Guidelines for the Determination of Death / Report of the Medical Consultants on the Diagnosis of Death to the President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research. - Non-Brain Formulations: The Alternative to the Brain-based Definitions / President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research. - Against the Stream: Comments on the Definition and Redefinition of Death / Hans Jonas. - Establishing Criteria of Death / J. David Bleich. - The Higher Brain Formulations / President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research. - The Impending Collapse of the Whole-Brain Definition of Death / Robert M. Veatch. - In re T.A.C.P. (Baby Theresa) / Supreme Court of Florida. - Brain Death, Religious Freedom, and Public Policy / Robert S. Olick. - Truthtelling with Dying Patients. - Changes in Physicians' Attitudes Toward Telling the Cancer Patient / Dennis H. Novack, Robin Plumer, Raymond L. Smith, Herbert Ochitill, Gary R. Morrow, John M. Bennett. - Truth and the Physician / Bernard C. Meyer. - The Classification of Duties - Veracity / Henry Sidgwick. - The Use of Truth and Falsehood in Medicine: An Experimental Study / Richard C. Cabot. - On the Supposed Right to Tell Lies From Benevolent Motives / Immanuel Kant. - Truthfulness as a Prima Facie Duty / W. D. Ross. - Telling the Truth / Jennifer Jackson. - Truth in Our Intercourse with the Sick / Worthington Hooker. - Defining Suicide / Manuel G. Velasquez. - The Problem of Defining Suicide / Tom L. Beauchamp. - Whether It Is Lawful to Kill Oneself / St. Thomas Aquinas. - Of Suicide / David Hume. - Moral Problems of Suicide Intervention / Tom L. Beauchamp, James F. Childress. - The Role of Law in Suicide Prevention: Beyond Civil Commitment - A Bystander's Duty to Report Suicide Threats / Kate E. Block. - Whose Life is it Anyway? / Joel Feinberg. - Suicide Prevention and the Value of Human Life / Erwin Ringel.
Note:Physician-Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia. - Death and Dignity: A Case of Individualized Decision Making / Timothy E. Quill. - Distortion of the Healing Relationship / Edmund D. Pellegrino. - A Case Against Dutch Euthanasia / Richard Fenigsen. - Medical Practice with Regard to Euthanasia and Related Medical Decisions in the Netherlands / Ministry of Welfare, Health and Cultural Affairs, The Netherlands, The Remmelink Report. - Sue Rodriguez v. Attorney General of Canada and Attorney General of British Columbia / Supreme Court of Canada. - People of the State of Michigan v. Jack Kevorkian / David F. Breck. - The Oregon Death with Dignity Act. - Forgoing Treatment and Causing Death. - Active and Passive Euthanasia / James Rachels. - Rachels on Active and Passive Euthanasia / Tom L. Beauchamp, James F. Childress. - Concurring in United States Supreme Court, Cruzan v. Director, Missouri Dept. of Health / Antonin Scalia. - Deciding to Forego Life-Sustaining Treatment President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research. - Cause of Death / Dan W. Brock. - Intending to Kill and the Principle of Double Effect / Edmund D. Pellegrino. - Patient Refusal of Hydration and Nutrition: An Alternative to Physician-Assisted Suicide or Voluntary Active Euthanasia / James L. Bernat, Bernard Gert, R. Peter Mogielnicki. - Decisions to Forgo Treatment Involving (Once) Competent Persons. - Bouvia v. Superior Court / California Court of Appeals, Second District. - Conflicts between Patients' Wishes to Forgo Treatment and the Policies of Health Care Facilities / Steven H. Miles, Peter A. Singer, Mark Siegler. - State of Georgia v. McAfee / Supreme Court of Georgia. - Helping Larry James McAfee Die / Nat Hentoff. - The Medical Directive / Linda L. Emanuel, Ezekiel J. Emanuel. - Trumping Advance Directives / Dan W. Brock. - Cruzan v. Director, Missouri Department of Health / United States Supreme Court. - Life and Death Choices after Cruzan / Larry Gostin. - Cruzan: No Rights Violated! / John A. Robertson.
Note:Decisions to Forgo Treatment Involving Never-Competent Patients. - In the Matter of the Treatment and Care of Infant Doe / Circuit Court for the County of Monroe, State of Indiana. - Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention and Treatment / U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Human Development Services. - Treatment Decisions for Seriously Ill Newborns: Ethical Critique of Baby Doe Rule / American Medical Association, Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs. - Human Rights and the Omission or Cessation of Treatment for Infants / Amnon Goldworth. - The Right to Die vs. Death in the Best Interests of the Infant / Alan R. Fleischman. - The Linares Affair / John D. Lantos, Steven H. Miles, Christine K. Cassel. - Superintendent of Belchertown State School v. Saikewicz / Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Hampshire. - Deciding for Others: The Permanently Unconscious and the Severely and Permanently Demented / Allen E. Buchanan, Dan W. Brock. - The Small Beginnings of Euthanasia: Examining the Erosion in Legal Prohibitions against Mercy-Killing / C. Everett Koop, Edward R. Grant. - Futile Treatment and Terminal Care. - Who Defines Futility? / Stuart J. Youngner. - Futility: A Concept in Search of a Definition / Ronald Cranford, Lawrence Gostin. - In re: the Conservatorship of Helga M. Wanglie / State of Minnesota, District Court, Probate Court Division, County of Hennepin, Fourth Judicial District. - Informed Demand for Non-Beneficial Medical Treatment / Steven H. Miles. - The Case of Helga Wanglie: A New Kind of Right to Die Case / Marcia Angell. - In the matter of Baby K. - The Concept of Futility: Patients Do Not Have a Right to Demand Medically Useless Treatment / James F. Drane, John L. Coulehan. - Futile Care: Physicians Should Not Be Allowed to Refuse to Treat / Robert M. Veatch, Carol Mason Spicer. - Social Reasons for Limiting Terminal Care. - When is Patient Care not Costworthy? / Dan W. Brock. - New Do-not-Resuscitate Policies: A First Step in Cost Control / Donald J. Murphy, Thomas E. Finucane. - For the SUPPORT Investigators, Prognosis-Based Futility Guidelines: Does Anyone Win? / Joan M. Teno, et al. - Medical Care at the End of Life: The Interaction of Economics and Ethics / A. A. Scitovsky, A. M. Capron. - Quailty of Life and Resource Allocation / Michael Lockwood. - The Value of Life / John Harris. - Limiting Health Care for the Old / Daniel Callahan. - A Lifespan Approach to Health Care / Norman Daniels. - How Age Should Matter: Justice as the Basis for Limiting Care to the Elderly / Robert M. Veatch.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references.
