Biomedical Ethics Reviews · 1984

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Public Policy and Research with Human Subjects

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Public Policy and Human Research

      • Albert R. Jonsen

      Pages 3-20

3. The Right to Health Care in a Democratic Society

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21

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   2. Utility, Natural Rights, and the Right to Health Care

      • John D. Arras

      Pages 23-45

   3. Rights to Health Care in a Democratic Society

      • James F. Childress

      Pages 47-70

4. Genetic Screening

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 71-71

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   2. Genetic Sceening of Prospective Parents and of Workers

      • Ruth Hubbard, Mary Sue Henifin

      Pages 73-120

   3. Current Issues in Genetic Screening

      • Alexander Morgan Capron

      Pages 121-149

5. Occupational Health

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 151-151

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   2. Ethical Issues in Occupational Health

      • Thomas H. Murray, Ronald Bayer

      Pages 153-173

   3. Perspective on Ethical Issues in Occupational Health

      • Vilma R. Hunt

      Pages 175-201

6. The Ethics of Fetal Research and Therapy

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 203-203

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   2. The Ethics of Fetal Therapy

      • Ruth Macklin

      Pages 205-223

   3. Ethical Issues in Prenatal Therapies

      • Richard T. Hull, James A. Nelson, Lou Ann Gartner

      Pages 225-250

7. Back Matter

   Pages 251-256

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This is the second volume of Biomedical Ethics Reviews, a series of texts designed to review and update the literature on issues of central importance in bioethics today. Five topics are dis­ cussed in the present volume. Section I, Public Policy andRe­ search with Human Subjects, reviews the history of the moral issues involved in the history of research with human subjects, and confronts most of the major legal and moral problems involving research on human subjects. Questions addressed in this section range from those concerning informed and proxy consent to those dealing with the adequacy of monitoring hu­ man research via institutional review boards (IRBs). Section II deals with a second broad topic in bioethics, The Right to Health Care in a Democratic Society. Here the concern not merely that of determining whether there is a right to is health care, but also, if there is such a right, how it ought best be understood and implemented. To answer questions such as these, we learn that one must distinguish legal from moral rights, assess the merits of various theories of rights, clarify the relationship between rights and duties, and attempt to deter­ mine a just method for the distribution of health care. Advances in medical technology often pose new legal and moral problems for legislators and health care practitioners.

• Biomedical ethics
• Ethical Issues
• Medical Ethics
• bioethics
• ethics
• health
• morality

• Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA

  James M. Humber, Robert T. Almeder

Policies and ethics