Medicine and Moral Philosophy : : A Philosophy and Public Affairs Reader / / ed. by Marshall Cohen.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
• MitwirkendeR: Arrow, Kenneth J.,; Becker, Lawrence C.,; Boorse, Christopher,; Buchanan, Allen,; Culver, Charles M.,; Daniels, Norman,; Feinberg, Joel,; Foot, Phlllppa,; Gert, Bernard,; Green, Michael Β.,; Lomasky, Loren Ε.,; Muyskens, James L.,; Singer, Peter,; Stich, Stephen P.,; Vandeveer, Donald,; Wikler, Daniel,
• HerausgeberIn: Cohen, Marshall,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]; ©1982
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Series: Philosophy and Public Affairs Readers ; 848
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (322 p.)

Responding to the increased public interest in the moral aspects of medical practice, this collection of essays focuses on questions of justice and injustice in the delivery and distribution of medical care and on problems concerning the rights of patients in their relationship to doctors, medical i...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Part I. Conceptual Issues
• On the Distinction between Disease and Illness
• Human Being: The Boundaries of the Concept
• Brain Death and Personal Identity
• PART II. Health and Social Policy
• Health-Care Needs and Distributive Justice
• Medical Progress and National Health Care
• Gifts and Exchanges
• Altruism and Commerce: A Defense of Titmuss against Arrow
• The Recombinant DNA Debate
• An Alternative Policy for Obtaining Cadaver Organs for Transplantation
• PART III. Medical Paternalism
• Paternalistic Behavior
• Medical Paternalism
• The Contractual Argument for Withholding Medical Information
• PART IV. Euthanasia
• Voluntary Euthanasia and the Inalienable Right to Life
• Euthanasia