Surrogate Motherhood

• Hardcover | Engels | Medical Ethics
• " . . . glimpses of intriguing changes in social arrangements and cultural understandings in relation to surrogacy. Disturbing motherhood indeed." --N... Lees meer

New Ways of Making Babies

• Hardcover | Engels | Medical Ethics
• ". . . extremely valuable. [This book] addresses exactly the right questions in a balanced, nuanced way." --Journal of the American Medical Associatio... Lees meer

Confronting Death

Richard W Momeyer

• Hardcover | Engels | Medical Ethics
• "Well organized, well argued, and well written . . . " --Choice "It is a lively document, with vigorous arguments leading to opinions that are controv... Lees meer

Early Warning

David H Smith, Kimberly A Quaid, Roger B Dworkin, Gregory P Gramelspacher

• Hardcover | Engels | Medical Ethics
• "This timely, well-written book brings together the collective experience of experts from the fields of medicine, psychiatry, religious studies, bioet... Lees meer

Wondergenes

Maxwell J Mehlman

• Hardcover | Engels | Medical Ethics
• Wondergenes not only imagines a future world in which genetic enhancement is the norm, but asserts that this future has already begun. Genetically eng... Lees meer

Human Genome Project and the Future of Health Care

• Hardcover | Engels | Medical Ethics
• "The volume deserves our serious attention. The authors have provided us an invaluable primer about the HGP and its implications for the future of Ame... Lees meer

The Patient-Physician Relation

Robert M Veatch

• Hardcover | Engels | Medical Ethics
• "Throughout the past two decades, when medical ethics has had a renaissance, Robert Veatch has been a leading contributor to its dialogue and advance.... Lees meer

Advance Directives and the Pursuit of Death with Dignity

Norman L Cantor

• Hardcover | Engels | Medical Ethics
• "[Cantor provides] both a cogent and provocative text and prodigious references." --The New England Journal of Medicine "Cantor develops a careful and... Lees meer

When Doctors Say No

Susan B Rubin

• Hardcover | Engels | Medical Ethics
• "The book is a fine addition to the world of academic medical ethics . . . Readers . . . will come away with some of the tools for further debate." --... Lees meer

The Ethics of Managed Care

Mary R Majumder

• Hardcover | Engels | Medical Ethics
• Discussions of managed care frequently begin and end with an opposition between the Hippocratic ethic of dedication to patient welfare and a business ... Lees meer

Practical Reasoning in Bioethics

James F Childress

• Hardcover | Engels | Medical Ethics
• "This is a valuable clarification, re-statement and defence of principlism as an approach to applied ethics. It is strongly recommended to many teache... Lees meer

Children, Ethics, and Modern Medicine

Richard B Miller

• Hardcover | Engels | Medical Ethics
• "Because the discipline of medical ethics has developed with autonomy as its foundation, the field has ignored pediatric ethics. The book is resoundin... Lees meer

Limits

Roger B Dworkin

• Hardcover | Engels | Medical Ethics
• "An excellent resource for entry-level courses on bioethics for health care practitioners, law students, and physicians." --Choice "Dworkin's provocat... Lees meer

Patient's Ordeal

William May

• Paperback | Engels | Medical Ethics
• "an excellent contribution to medical ethics" --Ethics "wide-ranging, compassionate, and insightful" --Publishers Weekly "a sensitive and provocative ... Lees meer

If I Were a Rich Man Could I Buy a Pancreas?

Arthur L Caplan

• Paperback | Engels | Medical Ethics
• "An important contribution to a debate that will continue for some time." --Health and Canadian Society "Insightful and thought-provoking. . . . As Ca... Lees meer

By No Extraordinary Means, Expanded Edition

• Paperback | Engels | Medical Ethics
• " . . . compelling. . . . This book might have been called 'No Easy Answers.' Each of the contributors writes with undisguised urgency. . . . [W]e sho... Lees meer