The patient as person : explorations in medical ethics / by Paul Ramsey ; with a new foreword by Margaret A. Farley and essays by Albert R. Jonsen and William F. May.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ramsey, Paul.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethics, Medical.

Attitude to Death.

Human Experimentation.

Patient Rights.

Tissue and Organ Procurement.

Medical ethics.

Medical Subjects:

Ethics, Medical.

Attitude to Death.

Human Experimentation.

Patient Rights.

Tissue and Organ Procurement.

Physical Description:

lv, 283 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, 2002.

Summary:

As physicians are faced with new and wonderful options for saving lives, transplanting organs, and furthering research, they also must wrestle with new and troubling choices -- who should receive scarce and vital treatment, how we determine when life ends, what limits should be placed on care for the dying, and more. This book by renowned theologian Paul Ramsey, first published thirty years ago, anticipated these moral and ethical issues and addressed them with cogency and power, providing the intellectual foundations for the field of bioethics. This second edition of Ramsey's classic work includes a new foreword by Margaret Farley and essays by Albert R. Jonsen and William F. May that help to locate and interpret Ramsey historically and intellectually.

Contents:

Consent as a canon of loyalty with special reference to children in medical investigations

On updating procedures for stating that a man has died

On (only) caring for the dying

The self-giving of vital organs: A case study in comparative ethics

Giving or taking cadaver organs for transplant

A caveat on heart transplants

Choosing how to choose: Patients and sparse medical resources.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0300093969

9780300093964

OCLC:

49931129