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Contemporary Issues in Biomedical Ethics

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  • © 1978

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Editors:
  1. John W. Davis

    1. The University of Western Ontario, London, Canada

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  2. Barry Hoffmaster

    1. The University of Western Ontario, London, Canada

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  3. Sarah Shorten

    1. The University of Western Ontario, London, Canada

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Table of contents (24 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxvii
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  2. Right and Moral Decisions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages xxix-xxix
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    2. Legalism and Medical Ethics

      • John Ladd
      Pages 1-35

    3. Comments on “Legalism and Medical Ethics”

      • Barry Hoffmaster
      Pages 37-42

    4. The Moral Rights of the Terminally ILL

      • Robert Audi
      Pages 43-62

    5. Comments on “The Moral Rights of the Terminally ILL”

      • Susan Sherwin
      Pages 63-67

  3. Issues in Genetics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 69-69
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    2. On Getting “Genetic” Out of “Genetic Disease”

      • Richard T. Hull
      Pages 71-87

    3. Protecting the Unconceived

      • Robert Baker
      Pages 89-100

    4. Comments on “Protecting the Unconceived”: Butchers, Bakers, amp; Candlestick Makers

      • Michael D. Bayles
      Pages 101-108

    5. Sterilization, Privacy, and the Value of Reproduction

      • Joseph Ellin
      Pages 109-125

    6. Comments on “Sterilization, Privacy, and the Value of Reproduction”

      • Michael D. Buckner
      Pages 127-134

    7. Reply to Buckner

      • Joseph Ellin
      Pages 135-138

  5. Informed Consent and Paternalism

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 191-191
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Not long ago, a colleague chided me for using the term "the biological revolution. " Like many others, I have employed it as an umbrella term to refer to the seemingly vast, rapidly-moving, and fre­ quently bewildering developments of contemporary biomedicine: psy­ chosurgery, genetic counseling and engineering, artificial heart-lung machines, organ transplants-and on and on. The real "biological revo­ lution," he pointed out, began back in the nineteenth century in Europe. For it was then that death rates and infant mortality began to decline, the germ theory of disease was firmly established, Darwin took his famous trip on the Beagle, and Gregor Mendel stumbled on to some fundamental principles of heredity. My friend, I think, was both right and wrong. The biological revolution did have its roots in the nineteenth century; that is when it first began to unfold. Yet, like many intellectual and scientific upheav­ als, its force was not felt for decades. Indeed, it seems fair to say that it was not until after the Second World War that the full force of the earlier discoveries in biology and medicine began to have a major impact, an impact that was all the more heightened by the rapid bi­ omedical developments after the war.

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  • The University of Western Ontario, London, Canada

    John W. Davis, Barry Hoffmaster, Sarah Shorten

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