TY - BOOK AU - Pence,Gregory E. TI - Classic cases in medical ethics: accounts of the cases and issues that define medical ethics SN - 9780073535739 PY - 2008/// CY - New York PB - McGraw-Hill Higher Education KW - Medical ethics KW - Case studies KW - Bioethical Issues KW - United States KW - Ethics, Medical KW - History KW - Ethics, Clinical KW - History, 20th Century N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. N-1-N-26) and indexes; Requests to die: Elizabeth Bouvia and Larry McAfee -- Comas: Karen Quinlan, Nancy Cruzan & Teri Schiavo -- Physician-assisted dying: Oregon's legalization -- Abortion: the trial of Kenneth Edelin -- Assisted reproduction: Louise Brown and beyond -- Battles over stem cells and embryos -- Reproductive cloning -- Letting impaired newborns die: the baby Doe cases -- Ethical theories in medical ethics -- Animal subjects: the Philadelphia primate study -- human subjects: the Tuskegee syphilis study -- Desires to be first: hand, heart, & face transplants: artificial hearts and separating conjoined twins -- The God committee: problems of just allocation of organs -- Using one baby to help another: baby Fae and baby Theresa -- Involuntary psychiatric commitment: Joyce Brown -- Ethical issues and genetic diseases: the challenge of diabetes -- Preventing the global spread of AIDS -- Ethics & financing medicine: Americare ER -