Full Description
A chief aim of this resource is to rekindle interest in seeing health care not solely as a set of practices so problematic as to require ethical analysis by philosophers and other scholars, but as a field whose scrutiny is richly rewarding for the traditional concerns of philosophy.
Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS Section I. Metaphysics Introduction Readings 1: On the Distinction Between Disease and Illness,Christopher Boorse Chapter 2: The Disease of Masturbation: Values and the Concept of Disease, H. Tristram Englehardt Chapter 3: Free Will and the Genome Project, P. S. Greenspan Chapter 4: (In)Equality, (Ab)Normality and the ADA, Anita Silvers Chapter 5: Dworkin on Dementia: Elegant Theory, Questionable Policy, Rebecca Dresser Section II. Epistemology Introduction Readings 6: Knowing and Acting in Medical Practice: The Epistemological Politics of Outcomes Research, Sandra Tanenbaum Chapter 7: Clinical Judgment, Expert Programs, and Cognitive Style: A Counter-Essay in the Logic of Diagnosis, Marx Wartofsky Chapter 8: The Role of Decision Analysis in Informed Consent: Choosing Between Intuition and Systematicity, P.A. Ubel and G. Lowenstein Chapter 9: Incommensurability: Its Implications for the Patient/Physician Relationship, Robert Veatch and William Stempsey Chapter 10: Knowledge at the Bedside: A Feminist View of What's Happening to This Patient, Hilde Lindemann Nelson Section III. Ethics Introduction Readings Chap 11: How Medicine Saved the Life of Ethics, Stephen Toulmin Chapter 12: Getting Down to Cases: The Revival of Casuistry in Bioethics, John Arras Chapter 13: The 'Four-principles' Approach, Tom Beauchamp Chapter 14: , A Critique of Principlism, K. Danner Clouser andBernard Gert Chapter 15: Moving Forward in Bioethical Theory: Theories, Cases and Specified Principlism, David DeGrazia Chapter 16: From the Ethicist's Point of View: The Literary Nature of Ethical Inquiry, Tod Chambers Chapter 17: Why a Feminist Approach to Bioethics?, Margaret Little Section IV. Social Philosophy Introduction Readings 18: Health Care Needs and Distributive Justice, Norman Daniels Chapter 19: Moral Justice and Legal Justice in Managed Care: The Ascent of Contributive Justice, E. Havvi Morreim Chapter 20: Meeting the Challenge of Justice and Rationing, Norman Daniels, Frances Kamm, Eric Rakowski, John Broome, Mary Anne Bailey Chapter 21: Justice in the Allocation of Health Care Resources: A Feminist Account, Hilde Lindemann Nelson and James Lindemann Nelson Section V. Postmodernity Introduction Readings 22: Medical Practice and Social Authority, Robert B. Pippin Chapter 23: Christian Science, Rational Choice and Alternative World Views, Peggy DesAutels Chapter 24: 'Ambiguous Sex' or Ambivalent Medicine? Ethical Issues in The Treatment of Intersexuality, Alice Domurat Dregner Chaper 25: Keeping Moral Spaces Open, Margaret Walker Chapter 26: Letting the Deaf Be Deaf: Reconsidering the Use of Cochlear Implants in Prelingually Deaf Children, Robert A. Crouch Chapter 27: Research Bioethics in the Ugandan Context: A Program Summary, Sana Loue, David Okello, Medi Kawuma
