Bøger af Arthur L. Caplan

Covers issues such as organ procurement, in-vitro fertilization, and the rationing of medical care. This book also contains essays on residents' autonomy in nursing homes and on the ethical issues raised by the project to map and sequence the human genome.

Offers a collection of essays emphasizes society's increasingly responsible engagement with ethical challenges in emerging medical technology. In this book, these essays showcase on several ways in which modern ethical thinking is improving safety, efficacy and efficiency of medical technology.

In When Medicine Went Mad, one of the nation's leading bioethicists-and an extraordinary panel of experts and concentration camp survivors-examine problems first raised by Nazi medical experimentation that remain difficult and relevant even today.

Caplan It is commonly said, especially when the subject is assisted reproduction, that medical technology has out- stripped our morality. Nor is it entirely accurate to describe assisted repro- duction as technology. It is technique, more than technology, that dominates the field of assisted reproduction.

The events in Bloomington became the catalyst for action by the Reagan administration, the courts, and Congress that culminated in a federal policy that makes failure to treat newborns with disabilities a form of child neglect. This book centers on the public policy aspects of withholding treatment from critically ill newborns who are disabled.

The Schiavo case changed the decision to withhold life-prolonging nutrition and hydration which appeared to many to be as non-controversial as decisions to refuse respirators or dialysis. The ethical dilemmas that such cases pose great controversy. This work examines these dilemmas providing information and documentation from many perspectives.

Advances in medical technology and science have made organ procurement, or the search and transfer of organs and tissue from one body to another, an important issue. How are we to meet the need? Can we do so and still respect personal ethics and religious convictions? This book examines the issues that surround organ procurement and distribution.