If I Were a Rich Man Could I Buy a Pancreas? - And Other Essays on the Ethics of Health Care

Informationen zum Autor Arthur L. Caplan Klappentext In this book, Arthur L. Caplan, a recent member of the President's Task Force on National Health Care Reform, addresses such important health care issues as organ procurement, in vitro fertilization, the high cost of medical care, and the controversial project to map the human genome. Caplan's lively essays provide an informative survey of the most pressing questions in medical ethnics today. Zusammenfassung Covers issues such as organ procurement, in-vitro fertilization, and the rationing of medical care. This book also contains essays on residents' autonomy in nursing homes and on the ethical issues raised by the project to map and sequence the human genome.

Product details

• Authors: Arthur L. Caplan
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.08.1992
• EAN: 9780253208682
• ISBN: 978-0-253-20868-2
• No. of pages: 368
• Series: Medical Ethics
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General