Medical Genetics Casebook A Clinical Introduction to Medical Ethics Systems Theory
The Direction of Medical Ethics The direction bioethics, and specifically medical ethics, will take in the next few years will be crucial. It is an emerging specialty that has attempted a great deal, that has many differing agendas, and that has its own identity crisis. Is it a subspecialty of clini...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Totowa, NJ
Humana
1982, 1982
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1982 |
| Series: | Contemporary Issues in Biomedicine, Ethics, and Society
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- HLA Linkage, Secretor Linkage Research
- Blood Sampling Studies, Amniotic Fluid Sampling Studies, and Psychological Studies
- Future Effects of Environmental Contaminants
- 6 (Cases 93–118) Selective Abortion:Range of Choices and Time Frames
- Counseling Decision After Physician Referral
- Prenatal Testing Decisions
- Abortion Decided Affirmatively or Negatively Before Testing
- Abortion Decided Affirmatively or Negatively with Test Results
- Followup Support for Abortion Decisions
- 7 (Cases 119–130) Social and Individual Interest Conflicts
- Sex Determination and Selection
- Excuse for Aborting Unwanted Pregnancies
- Referral and Feedback
- The Physician in the Dual Role of Filling Social Interests and Individual Interests
- 8 Pragmatics as an Ethical System
- Adaptation and the Pragmatic Criterion
- The Traditional Trioin Medical Ethics
- Pragmatics
- Value of a Systems Model
- The Nature and Justification of Intervention
- The Forgotten Human Condition
- 1 (Cases 1–7) Introduction to the Problem:Is an Amniocentesis Program Good Medicine or Social Engineering?
- Curative and Preventive Labels in Medicine
- The Unfragmented Patient
- Cost/Benefit Uses and Abuses
- We Can Never Do Only One Thing: The Ecological Model
- Attitudes Toward Pain and Suffering
- 2 (Cases 8–23) Working with Information
- Lack of Documentation, Verified Diagnosis, or Autopsy
- One Syndrome or Separate Problems
- Catch-All Explanations
- New Syndromes
- 3 (Cases 24–51) Denial and Reality Testing
- How Much Patient Denial Can Be Accepted?
- Anxiety Induction and Lowering
- Perceptions of Risk
- Overmedicalization or Good Medical Practice?
- 4 (Cases 52–74) Self-Image
- The Worth of the Individual
- Carrier Status
- Affected Parents
- Affected Offspring
- Parents’ Sense of Responsibility for the Defect
- 5 (Cases 75–92) Experimental Research and Procedures
- Thalassemia Research
- Other Applications of Fetoscopy
- The Worth of Human Beings
- Future Issues in Medical Ethics
- Medicine as Mythology
- Index of Case Studies