Description: Classic Cases in Medical Ethics, Fourth Edition Chapter One: Moral Reasoning and Ethical Theories in Medical Ethics Section I: Classic Cases about Death and Dying Chapter Two: Comas: Karen Quinlan and Nancy Cruzan Chapter Three: Requests to Die: Elizabeth Bouvia and Larry McAfee Chapter Four: Physician-Assisted Dying: Oregon's Legalization Section II: Classic Cases about the Beginnings of Human Life Chapter Five: Abortion: The Kenneth Edelin Case Chapter Six: Assisted Reproduction: Louise Brown and Beyond Chapter Seven: Battles over Stem Cells and Embryos Chapter Eight: Reproductive Cloning Chapter Nine: Letting Impaired Newborns Die: Baby Jane Doe Section III: Classic Cases about Research Chapter Ten: Animal Subjects: The Philadelphia Primate Study Chapter Eleven: Human Subjects: The Tuskegee Syphilis Study Chapter Twelve: Adult Heart Replacement: The First Heart Transplant and Artificial Heart Chapter Thirteen: Allocation of Artificial and Transplantable Organs: The God Committee Chapter Fourteen: Infants and Medical Research: Baby Fae and Baby Theresa Section IV: Classic Cases about Individual Rights versus the Public Good Chapter Fifteen: Involuntary Psychiatric Commitment: Joyce Brown Chapter Sixteen: Ethical Issues and Genetic Diseases: Nancy Wexler Chapter Seventeen: AIDS: Preventing the Global Spread of HIV-Infection Chapter Eighteen: Ethical Issues in Financing Medicine: Expanding Medicare?

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