Medical ethics / Noël Merino, book editor.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Overview: Americans' approval of healthcare law declines / Jeffrey M. Jones -- Health care is a right and must be provided to all Americans / Bernie Sanders -- It is immoral to treat health care as a right / Paul Hsieh -- Public health insurance programs are immoral and unaffordable / D.W. MacKenzie -- Public health insurance programs are morally required / Robert B. Reich -- Conscience exemptions for individuals and businesses are needed / Edmund F. Haislmaier -- Religious freedom should not allow employers to deny medical care / Marci A. Hamilton -- Overview: Fairness in dispensing donated organs / Catherine Hollander -- Presumed consent is the most ethical and effective organ donation system / Stu Strumwasser -- Cash for kidneys : the case for a market for organs / Gary S. Becker and Julio J. Elias -- Organ transplants should be rare and not for gain / Miran Epstein -- The dead-donor rule is ethically central to organ donation / L. Syd M. Johnson -- The dead-donor rule and the future of organ donation / Robert D. Truog, Franklin G. Miller, and Scott D. Halpern -- A kidney for a kidney / Sally Satel -- Condemned prisoners should not be able to donate organs after execution / Wesley J. Smith -- Overview: Reproductive technologies and social controversy / Anne Kingsley -- Prenatal genetic screening enhances autonomy / Ronald Bailey -- "Designer babies" aren't coming. The New York Times is just trying to scare you / Jessica Grose -- It's time to make paid surrogacy legal in New York / Leslie Morgan Steiner -- Gattaca at 15 : the dystopian sci-fi thriller is fast becoming our reality / Daniel Allott -- Three-parent embryos illustrate ethical problems with technologies / Brendan P. Foht -- Breeding exploitation : the faces of surrogacy / Jennifer Lahl, interviewed by Kathryn Jean Lopez -- Unethical uses of reproductive technologies / Margaret Somerville -- Overview: Views on end-of-life medical treatments / Pew Research Center -- The rights of patients support physician aid in dying / John M. Grohol -- Should doctors participate in executions? / Ty Alper, interviewed by Rachel Martin -- It is time to integrate abortion into primary care / Susan Yanow -- Medical professionals should not have to participate in the taking of life / Wesley J. Smith -- It is an ethics violation for doctors to perform death penalty executions / Ford Vox -- Moral disapproval of abortion justifies doctor refusal to provide it / E. Christian Brugger.

This collection of articles pro and con on issues in medical ethics debates the ethical principles that should apply to the health-care system, organ transplantation, reproductive technologies, and medical professionals in ending life.

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