| Description |
xxii, 283 pages ; 25 cm |
| Series |
The Lyman Beecher lectures at Yale university |
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Lyman Beecher lectures ; 1969
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| Contents |
Consent as a canon of loyalty with special reference to children in medical investigations -- On updating procedures for stating that a man has died -- On (only) caring for the dying -- The self-giving of vital organs : a case study in comparative ethics -- Giving or taking cadaver organs for transplant -- A caveat on heart transplants -- Choosing how to choose : patients and sparse medical resources |
| Summary |
This volume undertakes to examine some of the problems of medical ethics that are especially urgent in the present day. These are by no means technical problems on which only the expert (in this case, the physician) can have an opinion. They are rather the problems of human beings in situations in which medical care is needed. -from Preface |
| Analysis |
Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. - Moral and ethical aspects |
| Notes |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Death.
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Medical ethics.
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Ethics, Medical.
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| LC no. |
77118737 |
| ISBN |
0300013574 |
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