Study & Research Medical Ethics

This Study Guide consists of approximately 194 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Medical Ethics.

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Introduction

Chapter 1: Should Physicians Ever Hasten Patients’ Deaths?

Prolonging Life and Death: An Overview

Physicians Should Not Provide Futile Treatment

Physician-Assisted Suicide Is Consistent with Medical Ethics

Physicians Should Be Permitted to Assist in Suicide

Physicians Should Not Withhold Lifesaving Treatments

Physician-Assisted Suicide Violates Medical Ethics

Physicians Should Not Be Permitted to Assist in Suicide

Chapter 2: What Ethics Should Guide Organ Transplants?

The Ethics of Organ Transplants: An Overview

Animal-to-Human Transplants Could Save Lives

Animal-to-Human Transplants Are Dangerous and Unethical

Commerce in Organs Is Ethical

Commerce in Organs Is Unethical

Commerce in Organs Has Led to Human Rights Violations

Chapter 3: Are Reproductive Technologies Ethical?

Reproductive Technologies: An Overview

Reproductive Technologies Are a Valid Medical Treatment

Reproductive Technologies Can Be Consistent with Christian Beliefs

Multiple Births Are an Acceptable Consequence of Assisted Reproduction

Cloning Can Be an Acceptable Means of Reproduction

Reproductive Technologies Are Morally Problematic

Some Reproductive Technologies Violate Christian Beliefs

Multiple Births Are a Harmful Consequence of Assisted Reproduction

Cloning Is Not an Acceptable Means of Reproduction

Chapter 4: What Ethics Should Guide Biomedical Research?

Stem Cell Research and Human Cloning: An Overview

Research on Human Embryos Is Unethical

Research on Human Embryos Can Be Ethical

Research into Human Cloning Should Be Banned

Research into Human Cloning Should Not Be Banned

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Study & Research Medical Ethics

This Study Guide consists of approximately 194 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Medical Ethics.