TY - BOOK AU - Humber,James M. AU - Almeder,Robert F. TI - Biomedical ethics and the law SN - 0306309025 AV - K3601 .B58 1976 U1 - 179/.7 PY - 1976/// CY - New York PB - Plenum Press KW - Medical laws and legislation KW - Medical ethics KW - Ethics, Medical KW - Collected Works KW - Jurisprudence KW - Bioéthique KW - Législation comme sujet KW - fmesh N1 - Includes bibliographies and index; Introduction : bioethics as a discipline; Daniel Callahan --; Abortion; Roe v. Wade; Abortion and the law; Baruch A. Brody; A defense of abortion; Judith Javis Thomson; The morality of abortion; Richard B. Brandt; Abortion : the avoidable moral dilemma; James M. Humber --; Mental illness; Psychiatric intervention; Leon Eisenberg; The myth of mental illness; Thomas Szasz; Mental health and mental illness : some problems of definition and concept formation; Ruth Macklin; Involuntary mental hospitalization : a crime against humanity; Thomas Szasz; Psychiatrists and the adversary process; David L. Bazelon --; Human experimentation; Ethics and clinical research; Henry K. Beecher; Scientific investigations on man : a medical research worker's viewpoint; Michael Shimkin; Philosophical reflections on experimenting with human subjects; Hans Jonas; The moral justification for research using human subjects; Arthur J. Dyck and Herbert W. Richardson; Realities of patient consent to medical research; John Fletcher; NIH guidelines on research with human subjects --; Human genetics; Ethical issues arising from the possible uses of genetic knowledge; Tracy M. Sonneborn; Implications of prenatal diagnosis for the human right to life; Leon R. Kass; Implications of prenatal diagnosis for the quality of, and right to, human life : society as a standard; Robert S. Morison; Practical and ethical problems in human genetics; Kurt Hirschhorn; Reproductive rights and genetic disease; Lawrence P. Ulrich; On justifications for coercive genetic control; Thomas L. Beauchamp; Legal rights and moral rights; Alexander M. Capron; Privacy and genetic information; Herbert A. Lubs --; Dying; The problems in prolongation of life; Jonas Robitscher; The allocation of exotic medical lifesaving therapy; Nicholas Rescher; Life and the right to life; Henry David Aiken; Dying; Robert S. Morison; A statutory definition of the standards for determining human death : an appraisal and a proposal; Alexander M. Capron and Leon R. Kass; Death : process or event?; Barbara MacKinnon UR - http://www.archive.org/details/biomedicalethics00humb UR - http://www.openlibrary.org/books/OL4883177M ER -