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A comprehensive introduction to the vocabulary and definitions of the terms involved in the health care and bioethics debate.

To what lengths will we go to attain the level of perfection we want for our own health? What costs are we willing to pay? What are the rights of the individual to challenge difficult issues? If there is a disagreement, who decides the outcome? These and many other questions are addressed in this unique reference work.

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• Preface(p. XI)
• Introduction(p. 1)
• Bioethics, Health Care, and the Law(p. 1)
• Abandonment(p. 11)
• Abortifacient(p. 13)
• Abortion(p. 14)
• Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome(p. 17)
• Adoption and Biological Parents' Rights(p. 22)
• Advance Directives(p. 22)
• American Bar Association Health Law Section(p. 23)
• American Civil Liberties Union(p. 24)
• American Hospital Association(p. 24)
• American Medical Association(p. 27)
• American Nurses Association(p. 29)
• American Osteopathic Association(p. 31)
• American Society of Law, Medicine, and Ethics(p. 33)
• Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990(p. 33)
• Amniocentesis(p. 35)
• Anatomical Gifts(p. 36)
• Anencephaly(p. 36)
• Animal Experimentation(p. 38)
• Animal Rights(p. 38)
• Artificial Insemination(p. 39)
• Artificial Nutrition(p. 42)
• Autonomy, Principle of(p. 44)
• Autopsy(p. 45)
• Beneficence, Principle of(p. 47)
• Best Interests of Child Standard(p. 48)
• Bioethics(p. 51)
• Biomedicine(p. 51)
• Biotechnology(p. 51)
• Birth(p. 52)
• Blood Transfusion(p. 53)
• Bouvia, Elizabeth(p. 54)
• Breast Implants(p. 56)
• Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation(p. 57)
• Child Protective Laws(p. 58)
• Choice in Dying(p. 60)
• Choice of Evils Defense(p. 60)
• Christian Science, Church of(p. 61)
• Civil Rights Act of 1964(p. 61)
• Coma(p. 62)
• Commercial Surrogacy(p. 63)
• Competency(p. 64)
• Confidentiality(p. 65)
• Conjoined Twins(p. 66)
• Consent (Informed)(p. 67)
• Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act(p. 69)
• Contraception(p. 69)
• Cost Containment(p. 74)
• Cruzan v. Director, Missouri Department of Health(p. 76)
• Death(p. 79)
• Deontological Theory(p. 80)
• Do Not Resuscitate Orders(p. 82)
• Due Process (Constitutional)(p. 83)
• Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care(p. 83)
• Duty(p. 85)
• Dying Person's Bill of Rights(p. 85)
• Embryo Custody(p. 87)
• Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act(p. 87)
• Equal Protection of the Laws (Constitutional)(p. 88)
• Ethics(p. 89)
• Ethics Committees(p. 90)
• Eugenics(p. 91)
• Euthanasia(p. 92)
• Extraordinary Medical Intervention(p. 95)
• Faith Healing(p. 97)
• Federal Tort Claims Act(p. 98)
• Fetal Reduction(p. 99)
• Fetal Rights(p. 100)
• Food and Drug Administration(p. 102)
• Gene Therapy(p. 107)
• Genetic Screening(p. 108)
• Good Samaritan Act(p. 108)
• Health(p. 111)
• Health Insurance(p. 112)
• Health Maintenance Organization(p. 114)
• Health Maintenance Organization Act of 1974(p. 115)
• Hemlock Society(p. 116)
• Hippocratic Oath(p. 116)
• Human Genome Project(p. 118)
• Iatrogenic Disorders(p. 119)
• In Vitro Fertilization(p. 119)
• Incompetent Patients(p. 120)
• Informed Consent(p. 121)
• Insanity(p. 121)
• Institutional Review Boards(p. 123)
• Integrated Health System(p. 124)
• Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations(p. 125)
• Justice(p. 126)
• Kevorkian, Jack(p. 129)
• Life(p. 131)
• Life Support Systems(p. 132)
• Live Donors(p. 133)
• Living Will(p. 134)
• Malpractice, Medical(p. 137)
• Managed Care(p. 139)
• Maternal Rights(p. 142)
• Mature Minor Doctrine(p. 144)
• Medicaid/Title XIX(p. 144)
• Medical Savings Accounts(p. 147)
• Medicare(p. 148)
• Medicare A--Inpatient Insurance(p. 151)
• Medicare B--Physician and Outpatient Services(p. 154)
• Medicare C(p. 156)
• Medicare Prospective Payment System(p. 156)
• Milgram, Stanley(p. 159)
• Minors and Capacity(p. 160)
• Moral Hazard(p. 160)
• Natural Death Acts(p. 163)
• Negative Medical Outcome(p. 163)
• Negligence(p. 163)
• No Duty Rule(p. 167)
• Noncompliant Patient(p. 167)
• Nonmaleficence, Principle of(p. 168)
• Nuremberg Code(p. 170)
• Nutrition and Hydration(p. 171)
• Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act(p. 173)
• Oregon's Death with Dignity Act(p. 173)
• Organ and Tissue Donation(p. 174)
• Palliative Care(p. 177)
• Parens Patriae Authority(p. 178)
• Parental Rights(p. 179)
• Patient Dumping(p. 179)
• Patient Self-Determination Act(p. 180)
• Patient's Bill of Rights(p. 180)
• Persistent Vegetative State(p. 180)
• Physician-Assisted Suicide(p. 181)
• Physician-Patient Relationship(p. 182)
• Placebo(p. 185)
• Products Liability(p. 185)
• Prospective Payment System(p. 187)
• Quality of Life(p. 189)
• Quinlan, Karen Ann(p. 189)
• Radiation Experiments(p. 191)
• Rationing of Health Care(p. 191)
• Rehabilitation Act of 1973(p. 192)
• Religion(p. 193)
• Right to Health Care(p. 194)
• Risk(p. 194)
• Standard Precautions(p. 197)
• Standards of Proof(p. 197)
• Sterilization(p. 198)
• Substitute Judgment Rule(p. 199)
• Suicide(p. 199)
• Surrogate Mothering(p. 199)
• Terminal Illness(p. 201)
• Thrombolytic Therapy(p. 201)
• Transgenics(p. 201)
• Transsexualism(p. 202)
• Tuskegee Syphilis Studies(p. 203)
• Uniform Rights of Terminally Ill Act(p. 205)
• Utilitarianism, Theory of(p. 206)
• Xenotransplantation(p. 209)
• Appendix Sample Living Will(p. 211)
• For Further Reading(p. 215)
• Table of Cases(p. 219)
• Index(p. 221)

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CHOICE Review

Unique in introducing and defining the terminology of bioethics from a legal standpoint, this dictionary's 161 entries are arranged alphabetically and range in length from several paragraphs to several pages. In his definitions Hedges (health sciences, Ohio Univ., and a practicing attorney) focuses on legal defenses and case law, and on bioethical aspects of terms, "Abandonment" to "Xenotransplantation." An introductory essay discusses US health care and care providers, bioethical issues, and the law. The book also includes a sample living will, a table of cases, and a well-organized subject index. A brief annotated bibliography emphasizes law books over medical or ethics titles and lists no journals or Web sites. Strangely, it omits the important Encyclopedia of Bioethics, ed. by Warren Thomas Reich (5v., 2nd ed., CH, Oct'95). Comparisons with the comprehensive Encyclopedia, which covers bioethics from religious, philosophical, medical, and historical perspectives as well as legal, would be inappropriate. The dictionary would well serve libraries that do not own the Encyclopedia, or private collections of health practitioners or attorneys. L. N. Pander; Bowdoin College

Booklist Review

This volume in the Contemporary Legal Issues series defines terms from abandonment to xenotransplantation.

Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics

Richard H. Hedges is associate professor in the School of Health Sciences at Ohio University, Athens, OH.