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Preface |
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1 A Map of the Terrain of Ethics |
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The Levels of Moral Discourse |
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3 | (9) |
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3 | (1) |
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Rules and Rights (Codes of Ethics) |
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4 | (2) |
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6 | (1) |
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Three Questions of Normative Ethics |
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7 | (1) |
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Action Theory: What Are the Principles for Right Action? |
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7 | (1) |
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Value Theory: What Things Are Good or Valuable? |
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8 | (1) |
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Virtue Theory: What Character Traits Are Good to Have? |
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9 | (1) |
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Alternative and Newer Normative Approaches |
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9 | (1) |
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10 | (1) |
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The Meaning or Source of Ethical Norms |
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11 | (1) |
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How Do We Know What Is Ethical? |
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11 | (1) |
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A Full Theory of Bioethics |
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12 | (2) |
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14 | (2) |
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16 | (2) |
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16 | (1) |
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16 | (2) |
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2 The Hippocratic Oath and Its Challengers: A Brief History |
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18 | (19) |
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The Hippocratic Tradition |
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19 | (6) |
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19 | (1) |
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The Oath of Initiation Section |
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20 | (1) |
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The Code Section of the Oath |
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21 | (1) |
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Modern Codes in the Hippocratic Tradition |
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22 | (1) |
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22 | (1) |
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The American Medical Association Code of 1847 |
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23 | (1) |
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The World Medical Association Declaration of Geneva, 1948 |
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23 | (1) |
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Other Contemporary Oaths or Codes in the Hippocratic Tradition |
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24 | (1) |
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The Collapse of the Hippocratic Tradition |
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25 | (8) |
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Codes and Oaths Within the Medical Profession Breaking with the Hippocratic Tradition |
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25 | (1) |
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25 | (1) |
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The American Hospital Association Patient Bill of Rights, 1973 |
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26 | (1) |
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American Medical Association Principles of 1980 |
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27 | (1) |
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The World Medical Association Declaration of Geneva Revisions Up to 2017 |
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27 | (1) |
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Other Professional Association Codes |
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28 | (1) |
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28 | (1) |
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Sources from Outside Professional Medicine |
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28 | (1) |
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Judaism, Catholicism, and Protestantism |
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28 | (1) |
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29 | (1) |
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29 | (1) |
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29 | (1) |
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29 | (1) |
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30 | (1) |
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The Oath of the Soviet Physician |
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31 | (1) |
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Liberal Political Philosophy |
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31 | (1) |
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The UNESCO Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights |
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31 | (2) |
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33 | (1) |
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33 | (4) |
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3 The Basis of Moral Standing in Debates on Defining Death, Abortion, Stem Cells, and Animal Welfare |
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37 | (26) |
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Persons, Humans, and Individuals: The Language of Moral Standing |
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39 | (5) |
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The Concept of Moral Standing |
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39 | (1) |
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Moral and Descriptive Uses of the Term Person |
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40 | (1) |
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Persons Defined as "Those Who Possess Certain Properties" |
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41 | (1) |
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Persons Defined as "Those with Full Moral Standing" |
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41 | (1) |
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Confusion Resulting from Shifting from a Nonmoral to a Moral Use of the Term Person |
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42 | (1) |
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Moral and Nonmoral Uses of the Word Human |
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43 | (1) |
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44 | (7) |
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A Somatic or Circulatory Definition of Death |
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45 | (1) |
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The Problem of Irreversibility |
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46 | (2) |
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Problems with a Somatic Definition of Death |
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48 | (1) |
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A Whole-Brain-Oriented Definition of Death |
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48 | (2) |
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The Higher-Brain Definition of Death |
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50 | (1) |
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Definitions and Moral Standing |
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50 | (1) |
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51 | (3) |
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Symmetry between Definition of Death and Abortion |
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51 | (1) |
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Possible Basis for a Breakdown in the Symmetry |
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52 | (2) |
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54 | (2) |
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Stem Cells and Moral Standing |
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54 | (1) |
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Stem Cells and Cooperation with Evil |
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55 | (1) |
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The Moral Status of Nonhuman Animals |
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56 | (1) |
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57 | (1) |
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58 | (5) |
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58 | (1) |
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59 | (1) |
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60 | (1) |
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Moral Standing of Nonhuman Animals |
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61 | (2) |
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4 Principle-based Approaches to Moral Problems in Bioethics |
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63 | (17) |
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Principle-based Approaches: Principlism |
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63 | (1) |
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64 | (3) |
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Conflict Among Principles |
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67 | (7) |
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Different Concepts of Duty |
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68 | (1) |
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Absolute, Exceptionless Duties |
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68 | (1) |
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69 | (1) |
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70 | (1) |
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Theories of Conflict Resolution |
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70 | (1) |
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Single-Principle Theories |
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70 | (1) |
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Ranking (Lexically Ordering) Principles |
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71 | (1) |
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72 | (1) |
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Combining Ranking and Balancing |
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72 | (2) |
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Translating Principles to Rules |
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74 | (2) |
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76 | (3) |
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79 | (1) |
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5 Alternative Approaches: Virtues, Casuistry and Narrative Ethics, Feminist Approaches, and Care Ethics |
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80 | (28) |
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80 | (8) |
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82 | (2) |
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84 | (1) |
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84 | (1) |
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85 | (1) |
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86 | (1) |
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Problems with the Virtues |
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86 | (1) |
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87 | (1) |
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87 | (1) |
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Casuistry and Narrative Ethics |
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88 | (4) |
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88 | (2) |
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90 | (1) |
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Problems with Casuistry and Narrative Ethics |
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91 | (1) |
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92 | (5) |
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The Evolution of Feminist Thought |
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93 | (1) |
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Feminist Approaches and Ethical Theory |
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94 | (2) |
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Problems with Feminist Approaches |
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96 | (1) |
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97 | (5) |
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The Origins of the Ethic of Care |
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98 | (1) |
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The Meaning of the Care Perspective |
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99 | (1) |
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Specific Situations Take Priority Over Moral Rules |
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99 | (1) |
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Among Virtues, Care Should Prevail |
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100 | (1) |
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In the Debate between Principles of Right Actions and Virtues, Virtues Should Prevail |
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100 | (1) |
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Problems with Care Ethics |
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101 | (1) |
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102 | (2) |
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104 | (4) |
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104 | (1) |
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Casuistry and Narrative Ethics |
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105 | (1) |
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106 | (1) |
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106 | (2) |
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6 Problems in Benefiting and Avoiding Harm to the Patient |
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108 | (17) |
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Complications in Determining What Benefits Patients |
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108 | (11) |
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Subjective versus Objective Estimates of Benefit and Harm |
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109 | (4) |
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Medical versus Other Personal Benefits |
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113 | (2) |
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Conflicting Goals within the Medical Sphere |
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115 | (1) |
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Ways to Balance Benefits and Harms |
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115 | (1) |
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Bentham and Arithmetic Summing |
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116 | (1) |
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Comparing the Ratio of Benefits to Harms |
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116 | (2) |
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118 | (1) |
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The Problem of Medical Paternalism |
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119 | (3) |
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122 | (2) |
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124 | (1) |
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7 The Ethics of Respect for Persons: Lying, Cheating, and Breaking Promises, and Why Physicians Have Considered Them Ethical |
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125 | (27) |
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The Principle of Fidelity and the Duty of Confidentiality |
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127 | (6) |
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Fidelity and the Notion of Loyalty |
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128 | (1) |
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The Ethics of Confidentiality |
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129 | (1) |
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The Hippocratic Approach to Confidentiality |
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129 | (1) |
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Non-Hippocratic Approaches to Confidentiality |
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130 | (3) |
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The Principle of Autonomy and the Doctrine of Informed Consent |
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133 | (9) |
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133 | (1) |
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Positive and Negative Rights |
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134 | (3) |
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Informed Consent, Autonomy, and Therapeutic Privilege |
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137 | (3) |
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Standards of Disclosure for Consent to Be Adequately Informed |
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140 | (1) |
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The Professional Standard |
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140 | (1) |
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The Reasonable Person Standard |
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140 | (1) |
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141 | (1) |
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The Principle of Veracity: Lying and the Duty to Tell the Truth |
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142 | (4) |
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The Change in Physician Attitudes |
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142 | (1) |
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Accounting for the Change in Attitudes |
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143 | (1) |
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Changes in Judgments about Benefit and Harm |
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143 | (1) |
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A Possible Shift to an Ethic of Respect for Persons |
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144 | (2) |
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The UNESCO Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights |
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146 | (2) |
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148 | (1) |
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149 | (3) |
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8 The Principle of Avoiding Killing |
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152 | (19) |
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Active Killing Versus Allowing to Die |
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154 | (8) |
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Distinguishing Active Killing from Allowing to Die |
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155 | (1) |
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Invalid Arguments for Keeping the Distinction between Active Killing and Letting Die |
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155 | (1) |
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Consequentialist Arguments for and against Distinguishing Active Killing and Letting Die |
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156 | (1) |
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The Argument from Implications for Mentally Incapable Patients |
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157 | (1) |
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The Argument from a Principle of Avoiding Killing |
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158 | (1) |
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The Argument from Autonomy |
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159 | (1) |
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New Legal Initiatives for Physician-Assisted Suicide |
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160 | (1) |
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Distinguishing Homicide on Request from Assistance in Suicide |
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160 | (1) |
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161 | (1) |
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Stopping versus Not Starting |
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162 | (1) |
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The Distinction between Direct and Indirect Killing |
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163 | (1) |
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The Distinction between Ordinary and Extraordinary Means |
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164 | (4) |
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164 | (1) |
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The Criteria for Classifying Treatments Morally Expendable |
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165 | (1) |
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165 | (1) |
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165 | (1) |
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166 | (1) |
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The Subjectivity of All Benefit and Harm Assessments |
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166 | (1) |
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Withholding Food, Fluids, CPR, and Medications |
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167 | (1) |
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168 | (1) |
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169 | (2) |
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9 Death and Dying for Patients Who Are Not Their Own Decision-makers |
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171 | (22) |
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Formerly Mentally Capable Patients |
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173 | (10) |
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The Principle of Autonomy Extended |
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175 | (1) |
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175 | (1) |
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Going Beyond Advance Directives |
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176 | (2) |
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Mechanisms for Expressing Wishes |
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178 | (1) |
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178 | (2) |
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180 | (1) |
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Issues to Be Addressed in an Advance Directive |
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181 | (1) |
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What Treatments Are Being Refused? |
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181 | (1) |
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What Treatments Are Desired |
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181 | (1) |
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When Should the Directive Take Effect? |
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182 | (1) |
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Is a Healthcare Power of Attorney to Be Appointed? |
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182 | (1) |
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Patients Who Have Never Been Mentally Capable and Who Have No Available Family or Other Pre-existing Surrogates |
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183 | (2) |
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183 | (1) |
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The Legal and Ethical Standard |
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183 | (1) |
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Who Should Be the Surrogate? |
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184 | (1) |
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Patients Who Have Never Been Mentally Capable and Have a Surrogate |
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185 | (5) |
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Disputes about What Is Best for the Patient |
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185 | (2) |
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What Is the Standard Underlying This Family Discretion? |
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187 | (3) |
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190 | (1) |
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191 | (2) |
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10 Human Control of Life: Genetics and Modifying Human Nature |
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193 | (23) |
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Genetics as the Path to Playing God? |
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194 | (1) |
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195 | (1) |
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The Collection of Genetic Information and Lessons from Henrietta Lacks |
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196 | (3) |
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198 | (1) |
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199 | (1) |
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Genetic Testing and Counseling |
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199 | (6) |
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202 | (1) |
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Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing |
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203 | (2) |
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205 | (1) |
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206 | (5) |
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Therapy versus Enhancement |
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207 | (1) |
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Somatic versus Reproductive Cell Changes |
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208 | (1) |
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209 | (2) |
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211 | (1) |
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212 | (4) |
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11 Reproductive Choice and Advancing Technologies: Ethical Challenges in the Creation of Humans |
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216 | (18) |
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Procreative Autonomy: Possibilities and Limits |
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217 | (2) |
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Abortion and Prenatal Testing |
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219 | (2) |
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221 | (7) |
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Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis |
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222 | (1) |
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223 | (3) |
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226 | (2) |
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228 | (1) |
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229 | (1) |
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230 | (1) |
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231 | (3) |
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12 Social Ethics of Medicine: Allocating Resources, Health Insurance, Transplantation, and Human Subjects Research |
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234 | (35) |
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The Need for a Social Ethic for Medicine |
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235 | (4) |
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The Limits of the Ethics of Individual Relations |
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235 | (1) |
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The Social Ethical Principles for Medical Ethics |
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236 | (1) |
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236 | (1) |
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The Nature of the Principle of Social Utility |
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236 | (1) |
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237 | (1) |
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237 | (1) |
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Justice as an Alternative Social Ethical Principle |
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238 | (1) |
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Allocation of Healthcare Resources |
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239 | (11) |
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The Demand for Healthcare Services |
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240 | (1) |
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The Inevitability of Rationing |
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240 | (2) |
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Ethical Responses to the Pressures for Cost Containment |
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242 | (1) |
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Ethical Principles at the Level of the Individual |
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242 | (1) |
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The Subjective Form of Hippocratic (Patient-Benefiting) Utility |
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242 | (1) |
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The Objective Form of Hippocratic (Patient-Benefiting) Utility |
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243 | (1) |
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The Principle of Autonomy |
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243 | (1) |
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Ethical Principles at the Social Level |
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244 | (2) |
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246 | (1) |
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247 | (1) |
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The Role of the Clinician in Allocation Decisions |
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247 | (1) |
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Make the Clinician the One Who Decides Where to Cut Costs |
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247 | (1) |
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Practical Problems in Calculating |
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248 | (1) |
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Problems in Principle with Abandoning the Patient-Centered Ethic |
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249 | (1) |
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An Exemption from Social Ethics for Clinicians |
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249 | (1) |
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250 | (4) |
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The Affordable Care Act of 2010 |
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250 | (1) |
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251 | (1) |
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251 | (1) |
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1 Healthcare and Society's Interest |
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251 | (1) |
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2 Healthcare as a Social Good |
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251 | (1) |
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3 Healthcare as a Matter of justice |
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252 | (1) |
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252 | (1) |
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The Multiple Lists Problem |
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253 | (1) |
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254 | (5) |
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Is Performing Transplants "Playing God"? |
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255 | (1) |
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255 | (2) |
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257 | (1) |
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258 | (1) |
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259 | (1) |
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Balancing Social Utility and Justice |
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259 | (1) |
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Research Involving Human Subjects |
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259 | (4) |
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Distinguishing Research and Innovative Therapy |
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260 | (1) |
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Social Ethics for Research Involving Human Subjects |
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260 | (1) |
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260 | (1) |
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261 | (1) |
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261 | (2) |
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263 | (1) |
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264 | (1) |
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265 | (4) |
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265 | (1) |
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Allocation of Scarce Medical Resources |
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266 | (1) |
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267 | (1) |
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267 | (1) |
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Research Involving Human Subjects |
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268 | (1) |
Appendix |
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269 | (9) |
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269 | (1) |
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Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights (2005) |
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270 | (8) |
Notes |
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278 | (8) |
Index |
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