Preface to the Fourth Edition |
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Acknowledgements |
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11 | (2) |
Introduction: Ethical Resources for Decision-Making |
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13 | (3) |
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16 | (1) |
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3 Levels of Moral Response |
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16 | (3) |
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4 A Variety of Perspectives |
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19 | (4) |
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23 | (4) |
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6 Five Types of Ethical Theory: Mill, Kant, Ross, Aristotle, and Feminist Perspectives |
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60 | (6) |
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66 | (5) |
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Chapter One Relationships in Health Care |
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71 | (19) |
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Case 1.1 When Physicians and Family Disagree |
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71 | (5) |
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Case 1.2 Prescribing Birth Control to Minors |
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76 | (7) |
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Case 1.3 Nancy Olivieri, Bioethics, and Industry Funding |
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Case 1.4 OF Joe Terminal Illness, Addictions, and Respect |
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84 | (2) |
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Case 1.5 An "Over-the-Hill" Surgeon |
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86 | (4) |
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Chapter Two Health Care in Canada |
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90 | (26) |
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Case 2.1 Budget Cutting in Neonatology and Perinatology |
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90 | (9) |
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Case 2.2 Social Determinants of Health |
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99 | (3) |
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Case 2.3 An Artificial Heart --- Allocating Health Care Funding |
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102 | (5) |
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Case 2.4 Canada's Tainted Blood Scandal |
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107 | (9) |
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116 | (35) |
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Case 3.1 Research Involving Alzheimer Patients |
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116 | (8) |
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Case 3.2 Non-Consensual Electroconvulsive Shock Therapy |
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124 | (7) |
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Case 3.3 Discontinuing Forced Feeding of an Anorexia Nervosa Patient |
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131 | (8) |
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Case 3.4 Choosing Not to Vaccinate |
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139 | (3) |
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Case 3.5 Religious Conflict over a Life-Saving Blood Transfusion |
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142 | (9) |
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Chapter Four Reproduction |
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Case 4.1 When a Couple Disagree over Abortion |
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151 | (5) |
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Case 4.2 Caesarean for the Sake of the Fetus? |
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156 | (1) |
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Case 4.3 The Legality and Morality of Contract (Surrogate) Pregnancy |
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157 | (6) |
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Case 4.4 The Role of Chantal Daigle's Boyfriend in Her Abortion Decision |
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163 | (4) |
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Case 4.5 Fetal Tissue Transplantation |
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167 | (7) |
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Case 4.6 Too Old to Have a Baby? |
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174 | (12) |
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Chapter Five Fetuses and Newborns |
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186 | (22) |
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Case 5.1 Should Treatment Be Withheld from Patients with Severe Cognitive Disabilities? |
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186 | (6) |
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Case 5.2 Sex Selection for Non-Medical Reasons |
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192 | (4) |
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Case 5.3 Should Fetuses with "Milder Disabilities" Be Aborted? |
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196 | (5) |
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Case 5.4 Protecting an "Unborn Child" |
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201 | (4) |
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Case 5.5 Saviour Siblings |
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205 | (3) |
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Chapter Six Death, Dying, and Euthanasia |
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Case 6.1 Two Different Requests to Be Left to Die |
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208 | (6) |
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6.1a "Don't Let My Mother Die" |
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208 | (1) |
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209 | (5) |
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Case 6.2 Sue Rodriguez: "Please Help Me to Die" |
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214 | (8) |
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Case 6.3 Tracy and Robert Latimer: "It Was Right to Kill My Daughter" |
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222 | (7) |
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Case 6.4 Stephen Dawson: Should Severely Mentally Challenged Patients Be Treated? |
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229 | (6) |
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Case 6.5 The Brain Dead as Teaching Materials |
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235 | (10) |
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Chapter Seven Research Involving Human Participants |
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245 | (16) |
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Case 7.1 Using Infants in Medical Research Projects |
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245 | (5) |
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Case 7.2 Diagnosing and Treating Heart Disease in Women |
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250 | (4) |
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Case 7.3 Who Owns the Research? The Case of the HeLa Cells |
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254 | (2) |
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Case 7.4 Access to Experimental Drugs in Catastrophic Circumstances |
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256 | (2) |
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Case 7.5 Pandemic Flu Ethics and Risk |
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258 | (3) |
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Chapter Eight Scarce Medical Resources and Catastrophic Circumstances |
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261 | (28) |
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Case 8.1 Dialysis Machine Shortages: Who Shall Live? |
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261 | (6) |
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Case 8.2 Ethics and Humanitarian Aid: Vertical Aid Programs |
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267 | (1) |
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Case 8.3 Payment for Plasma |
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268 | (3) |
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Case 8.4 Anencephalic Infants as Donors |
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271 | (6) |
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Case 8.5 A Baboon Heart for Baby Fae |
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277 | (5) |
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Case 8.6 Did Family Instability Justify Non-Treatment of Baby Jesse? |
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282 | (7) |
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289 | (8) |
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Case 9.1 The Nuu chah nulth Nation and Arthritis Research |
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289 | (3) |
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Case 9.2 Enhancement and Sport |
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292 | (2) |
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Case 9.3 Genetic Testing and Disclosure |
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294 | (3) |
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Chapter Ten Unanalyzed Cases for Further Study |
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297 | (14) |
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Case 10.1 Should Restraints Be Used to Correct Self-Destructive Behaviour? |
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297 | (1) |
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Case 10.2 Breast Cancer While Pregnant |
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298 | (2) |
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Case 10.3 Should Patients Be Informed of Remote Risks of Procedures? |
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300 | (2) |
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Case 10.4 Minors as Organ Donors |
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302 | (1) |
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Case 10.5 Failed Contraception, Genetic Disorders, and Parental Disagreement |
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303 | (1) |
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Case 10.6 To Resuscitate or Not to Resuscitate? |
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304 | (2) |
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Case 10.7 CPR and a Nurse's Responsibility |
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306 | (1) |
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Case 10.8 "Don't Start the Respirator" |
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307 | (1) |
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Case 10.9 Queue-Jumping in the OR |
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307 | (1) |
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Case 10.10 Allocation of ICU Beds |
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308 | (1) |
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Case 10.11 Vaccination Allocation |
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309 | (1) |
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Case 10.12 Genetic Screening and Family Disclosure |
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