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Informationen zum Autor James F. Childress is the Edwin B. Kyle Professor of Religious Studies and Professor of Medical Education at the University of Virginia, where he also co-directs the Virginia Health Policy Center. He is the author of over a hundred articles, many of them in biomedical ethics; his several books include Principles of Biomedical Ethics (with Tom L. Beauchamp), Who Should Decide? Paternalism in Health Care, and Priorities in Biomedical Ethics. Klappentext In his latest book, renowned ethicist James F. Childress uses various metaphors and analogies to highlight the role of imagination in practical reasoning. Childress shows how principles, metaphors, and analogies illuminate moral problems and issues in science, medicine, and health care. The issues he considers include screening and testing for HIV infection, informed consent to and refusal of life-sustaining treatment, allocating scarce health care resources, providing access to and controlling the costs of health care, and obtaining organs and tissues for transplantation. Zusammenfassung A renowned ethicist explores problem areas in biomedical ethics and shows how principles, metaphors, and analogies interact in practical reasoning. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Acknowledgments Part One: Principles, Metaphors, and Analogies 1. Metaphor and Analogy in Bioethics 2. Ethical Theories, Principles, and Casuistry in Bioethics: An Interpretation and Defense of Principlism 3. Metaphors and Models of Doctor-Patient Relationships: Their Implications for Autonomy with Mark Siegler Part Two: Respect for Autonomy: Its Implications and Limitations 4. If You Let Them, They'd Stay in Bed All Morning: The Principle of Respect for Autonomy and the Tyranny of Regulation in Nursing Home Life 5. How Much Should the Cancer Patient Know and Decide? with Bettina Schoene-Seifert 6. Mandatory HIV Screening and Testing Part Three: Termination of Life-Sustaining Treatment 7. "Who Is a Doctor to Decide Whether a Person Lives or Dies?": Reflections on Dax's Case with Courtney S. Campbell 8. Must Patients Always Be Given Food and Water? with Joanne Lynn 9. When Is It Morally Justifiable to Discontinue Medical Nutrition and Hydration? Part Four: Allocation of Health Care 10. Who Shall Live When Not All Can Live? 11. Triage in Intensive Care: The Possibilities and Limitations of a Metaphor 12. Fairness in the Allocation and Delivery of Health Care: A Case Study of Organ Transplantation 13. Rights to Health Care in a Democratic Society Part Five: Obtaining Organs and Tissues for Transplantation 14. Ethical Criteria for Policies to Obtain Organs for Transplantation 15. Human Body Parts as Property: An Assessment of Ownership, Sales, and Financial Incentives 16. Ethics, Public Policy, and Human Fetal Tissue Transplantation Research Notes Index ...
