Contemporary Issues in Biomedical Ethics

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

4. The Role of the Physician

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 139-139

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   2. Hippocrates Lost, A Professional Ethic Regained: Reflections on the Death of the Hippocratic Tradition

      • Lisa H. Newton

      Pages 141-160

   3. Comments on “Hippocrates Lost, A Professional Ethic Regained: Reflections on the Death of the Hippocratic Tradition”

      • Donald E. Zarfas

      Pages 161-166

   4. Physicians as Body Mechanics

      • Michael D. Bayles

      Pages 167-177

   5. Physician as Body Mechanic—Patient as Scrap Metal: What’s Wrong with the Analogy

      • Colleen D. Clements

      Pages 179-185

   6. Internal or External Physician—Patient Relationships, A Response to Clements

      • Michael D. Bayles

      Pages 187-189

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.

• Biomedical ethics
• Ethics
• autonomy
• biomedicine
• dynamics
• health
• medical ethics
• morality

• The University of Western Ontario, London, Canada

  John W. Davis, Barry Hoffmaster, Sarah Shorten

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