PHIL 2306 (Introduction to Ethics) - Dr. A. Antoninka

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What is it like to experience disability? What are the prevailing cultural attitudes toward those who experience disability? How do social norms and public policies affect those experiencing disability? This book provides a vivid and concrete introduction to the wealth of social, political and ethical debates that surround the experience of disability.

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New technology always raises compelling ethical questions. As those in medicine increasingly depend on computers and other intelligent machines, the intersection of ethics, computing and the health professions grows much more complex and significant. This book attempts systematically to identify and address the full range of ethical issues that arise when intelligent machines are used in medicine, nursing, psychology, and allied health professions.

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Explores ethical, legal, and policy issues of people with disabilities and examines topics central to the lives of individuals with disabilities and their families.

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David Seedhouse demonstrates tangibly and graphically how ethics and health care are inextricably bound together, and creates a firm theoretical basis for practical decision-making. He not only clarifies ethics but, with the aid of the acclaimed Ethical Grid, teaches an essential practical skill which can be productively applied in day-to-day health care.

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Ethical concerns in relation to a variety of specific issues are examined. These issues include, for example, human experimentation, stem cell research, assisted reproductive technologies, termination of pregnancy, rationing of health care, euthanasia, and quality of life issues.

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CHAPTERS: Primum non nocere: a contrarian ethic? - Controversies surrounding brain death - Ontological status of whole-brain-dead individuals - Consciousness and aesthetics in decisions concerning organ donation using anencephalic neonates - Organ donation following cardiac death: conflicts of interest, ante mortem interventions, and determinations of death - Ethical concerns with rapid organ recovery ambulances - Allow the dying to donate: replace the dead donor rule - A Catholic view on the dead donor rule - Killing and letting die - Organ donation and the beatific vision: Thomist moral theology confronts the tide of relativism - The meaning of gift in organ transplantation - Ethics of contact with China on transplants - Gestational surrogacy and live organ donation: a contrast - Organ transplants: a study on bioethics and the ordinary magisterium

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The authors demonstrate that the conventional normative framework of bioethics is called into question by issues as wide ranging as genetic manipulation, disability, high-tech prosthetics, and intersexuality. They address issues in philosophy, law, bioscientific research, psychiatry, cultural studies, and feminism from a "postconventional" perspective that looks beyond the familiar ideas of the body, proposing not a bioethics about the body but a radical ethics of the body.

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In this book, Michael Barilan offers an urgently needed, nonideological, and thorough conceptual clarification of human dignity and human rights, relating these ideas to current issues in ethics, law, and bioethics. Combining social history, history of ideas, moral theology, applied ethics, and political theory, Barilan tells the story of human dignity as a background moral ethos to human rights.

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CHAPTERS: 1: The doctor-patient relationship; 2: Consent and refusal: competent adults; 3: Treatment without consent: incapacitated adults and compulsory treatment; 4: Consent and refusal: children and young people; 5: Confidentiality; 6: Health records; 7: Contraception, abortion, and birth; 8: Assisted reproduction; 9: Genetics; 10: Caring for patients at the end of life; 11: Euthanasia and physician assisted suicide. 12: Responsibilities after a patient's death13: Prescribing and administering medication; 14: Research and innovative treatment; 15: Emergency care; 16: Doctors with dual obligations; 17: Doctors working in custodial settings; 18: Education and training; 19: Multidisciplinary teams and relationships with colleagues; 20: Public health dimensions of medical practice; 21: Reducing risk, clinical error, and poor performance.

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CHAPTERS: Autism: the very idea - Embodying autistic cognition: towards reconceiving certain "autism-related" behavioral atypicalities as functional - Autism and the extreme male brain - I think, therefore I am. I am verbal, therefore I live. - A dash of autism - Knowing other minds: ethics and autism - Autism, empathy, and affective framing - Advocacy, autism and autonomy.

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Public Health Policy and Ethics brings together philosophers and practitioners to address the foundations and principles upon which public health policy may be advanced. What is the basis that justifies public health in the first place? Why should individuals be disadvantaged for the sake of the group? How do policy concerns and clinical practice work together and work against each other? Can the boundaries of public health be extended to include social ills that are amenable to group-dynamic solutions?

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Thus far in the development of the discipline of medical ethics, the overriding concern has been with solutions to specific problems. General discussion is hampered by lack of understanding both of the scope and methodology of medical ethics and of its scientific and philosophical basis. This books offers much-needed clarification of the purview, ontological basis, and methodology of a medical ethics that is to be comprehensive and yet readily accepted by all.