Books in the Medical Ethics series

Contributors from medicine, law, and philosophy query how the growing ability to trace certain diseases and conditions to specific genes might impact the allocation of health care resources, the relationship between patients and physicians, health services for minorities, reproductive health, acces

Explores the dilemmas faced by patients and their families.

An advance medical directive (living will) is a device aimed at controlling medical intervention during the dying process after a patient is no longer competent. This book outlines the legal foundation and framework governing advance directives and considers how such documents should be drafted in light of that legal framework.

Describes how to achieve the highest ethical standards in your healthcare organisation.

Discussions of managed care frequently begin and end with an opposition between the Hippocratic ethic of dedication to patient welfare and a business ethic of self-interest in the service of efficiency. In this book, the author approaches managed care as a problem of organisations.

Develops a comprehensive ethic for the medical treatment of children based on extensive observation and interviews in pediatric care settings

Offers an overview of the scientific advances that have led to the state of genetic enhancement, and explains how these advances can be used to redefine what we think is a normal human being. This title explores the ethical dilemmas already facing researchers and medical practitioners, and the dilemmas we will all be expected to face.

A renowned ethicist explores problem areas in biomedical ethics and shows how principles, metaphors, and analogies interact in practical reasoning.

A brilliant critique of "medical futility" and the debate over who has the right to cease or refuse medical treatment.