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Biomedical Ethics Reviews · 1983

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Editors:
  1. James M. Humber

    1. Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA

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  2. Robert F. Almeder

    1. Department of Philosophy, Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Euthanasia

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-4
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    2. On Euthanasia

      • Robert Baker
      Pages 5-28

    3. The Sanctity of Life

      • James Rachels
      Pages 29-42

  3. Surrogate Gestation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 43-46
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    2. Surrogate Gestation

      • Theodore M. Benditt
      Pages 47-68

    3. Surrogate Motherhood

      • Lisa H. Newton
      Pages 69-90

  4. The Distribution of Health Care

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 91-93
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    2. Scarcity and Basic Medical Care

      • Robert Almeder
      Pages 95-105

    3. Distributing Health Care

      • N. Fotion
      Pages 107-126

  5. The Involuntary Commitment and Treatment of Mentally Ill Persons

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 127-130
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    2. Involuntary Commitment and Treatment of Persons Diagnosed as Mentally Ill

      • Richard T. Hull
      Pages 131-147

    3. Mental Illness and Crime

      • Robert L. Arrington
      Pages 149-159

  6. Patenting New Life Forms

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 161-164
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    2. Patenting New Forms of Life

      • L. B. Cebik
      Pages 165-186

    3. Ethical Issues Raised by the Patenting of New Forms of Life

      • James Muyskens
      Pages 187-198

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 199-209
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About this book

In the past decade the body of literature in the area of biomedical ethics has expanded at an astounding rate. Indeed, on every major topic, the literature in this area has mUltiplied, and continues to do so, so rapidly that one can easily fall behind important advances in our thinking about and understanding of the problems of contemporary bioethics. Awareness of this need to keep apace of developments in the area prompted a recent reviewer of our earlier collection Biomedical Ethics and the Law (Plenum, 2nd edition, 1979) to suggest that somebody ought to offer the service of providing a biennial review or update of the literature on the various central topics in bioethics. Thomas Lanigan, of The Humana Press, agreed with this last sug­ gestion and so asked us to edit a series of texts consisting of previously unpublished essays on selected topics, a series that would seek to re­ view and update recent literature on the central topics, while also striv­ ing to advance distinctive solutions to the problems on the topics under discussion. Accordingly, this first collection of previously unpublished essays focuses on the selected topics, and the authors commissioned were charged with addressing the basic problems assigned while also bringing the reader either directly or indirectly up to date on the rele­ vant literature.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA

    James M. Humber

  • Department of Philosophy, Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA

    Robert F. Almeder

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Biomedical Ethics Reviews · 1983

  • Editors: James M. Humber, Robert F. Almeder

  • Series Title: Biomedical Ethics Reviews

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59259-439-9

  • Publisher: Humana Totowa, NJ

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1983

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-89603-041-1Published: 01 August 1983

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4757-4632-7Published: 14 March 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-59259-439-9Published: 01 August 1983

  • Series ISSN: 0742-1796

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 209

  • Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Theory of Medicine/Bioethics, Biomedicine general, Ethics

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