Am I my brother's keeper? : the ethical frontiers of biomedicine - Caplan, Arthur L. (Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1997)
Pt. 1. Research, experimentation, and innovation: And baby makes--moral muddles -- The intrusion of evil, the use of data from unethical medical experiments -- Have a heart? The ethical lessons of the development of the total artificial heart -- "What a long, strange trip it's been," the debate over the use of fetal tissue for transplantation research -- Pt. 2. Starting and stopping medical treatment for the very young and very old: Hard cases make bad law, the legacy of the Baby Doe controversy -- Analogies to the Holocaust and contemporary bioethical disputes about assisted suicide and euthanasia --Will Dr. Kevorkian kill hospice? -- Odds and ends -- No sale: markets, organs, and tissues -- Is the use of animal organs for transplants immoral? -- Am I my brother's keeper? Ethics and the use of living donors -- Pt. 4. Health policy: Dead as a doornail -- sinners, saints, and access to health care -- The ethics of gatekeepers -- Pt. 5. What is your doctor trying to do to you? Who says you're sick? -- Curing what ails the medical model -- If gene therapyis the cure, what's the disease? -- What's wrong with eugenics? -- Do not copy without permission.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-235) and index.
Keywords: Medical ethics