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List of contributors page ix

Acknowledgements xvi

1 Introduction 1
A. M. Viens and Peter A. Singer

Section I Information problems

Introduction 9
Anne Slowther

2 Consent 11
John R. Williams

3 Capacity 17
Julie Chalmers

4 Disclosure 24
Lori d’Agincourt-Canning and Carolyn Johnston

5 Voluntariness 31
Mary Jane Dykeman and Kate Dewhirst

6 Truth telling 36
Philip C. Hébert, Barry Hoffmaster,
and Kathleen C. Glass

7 Confidentiality 43
Anne Slowther and Irwin Kleinman

Section II End of life care

Introduction 51
James A. Tulsky

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8 Quality end of life care 53 18 Non-therapeutic pediatric

Peter A. Singer, Neil MacDonald, interventions 127
and James A. Tulsky David Benatar

9 Substitute decision making 58 19 Child abuse and neglect 132

Robert A. Pearlman Benjamin H. Levi

10 Advance care planning 65

James A. Tulsky, Linda L. Emanuel,
Section IV Genetics and biotechnology
Douglas K. Martin and Peter A. Singer

11 Euthanasia and assisted Introduction 143

suicide 72 Abdallah S. Daar
Bernard M. Dickens, Joseph M. Boyle Jr.,
20 Organ transplantation 145
and Linda Ganzini
Linda Wright, Kelley Ross,
12 Conflict in the healthcare setting and Abdallah S. Daar
at the end of life 78
21 Regenerative medicine 153
Susan Dorr Goold, Brent C. Williams,
Heather L. Greenwood
and Robert Arnold
and Abdallah S. Daar
13 Brain death 85
22 Genetic testing and screening 160
Sam D. Shemie, Neil Lazar,
Ruth Chadwick
and Bernard M. Dickens
23 Bio-banking 166
Bartha Maria Knoppers and Madelaine Saginur
Section III Pregnant women and children
24 Behavioral genetics 174
Jason Scott Robert
Introduction 95
John Lantos

14 Ethical dilemmas in the care of Section V Research ethics

pregnant women: rethinking
‘‘maternal–fetal conflicts’’ 97 Introduction 185
Françoise Baylis, Sanda Rodgers, Richard E. Ashcroft
and David Young
25 Research ethics 187
15 Prenatal testing and newborn Eric M. Meslin and Bernard M. Dickens
screening 104
26 Innovation in medical care:
Lainie Friedman Ross
examples from surgery 194
16 Assisted reproduction 112 Randi Zlotnik Shaul, Jacob C. Langer,
Roxanne Mykitiuk and Martin F. McKneally
and Jeff Nisker
27 Clinical trials 201
17 Respectful involvement of children Richard E. Ashcroft and A. M. Viens
in medical decision making 121
28 Epidemiological research 207
Nuala Kenny, Jocelyn Downie,
Richard E. Ashcroft
and Christine Harrison

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29 Clinical research and the Section VII Using clinical ethics to make an
physician–patient relationship: impact in healthcare
the dual roles of physician
and researcher 214 Introduction 309
Nancy M. P. King and Larry R. Churchill Susan K. MacRae

30 Financial conflict of interest 40 Clinical ethics and systems

in medical research 222 thinking 313
Trudo Lemmens and Lori Luther Susan K. MacRae, Ellen Fox,
and Anne Slowther
31 Embryo and fetal research 231
Ronald M. Green 41 Innovative strategies to improve
effectiveness in clinical ethics 322
Jennifer L. Gibson, M. Dianne Godkin,
C. Shawn Tracy, and Susan K. MacRae
Section VI Health systems and institutions
42 Teaching bioethics to medical
Introduction 241 students and postgraduate
Ross Upshur trainees in the clinical setting 329
Martin F. McKneally
32 Organizational ethics 243
and Peter A. Singer
Jennifer L. Gibson, Robert Sibbald,
Eoin Connolly, and Peter A. Singer

33 Priority setting 251 Section VIII Global health ethics

Douglas K. Martin, Jennifer L. Gibson,
and Peter A. Singer Introduction 339
Solomon R. Benatar
34 Disclosure of medical error 257
Philip C. Hébert, Alex V. Levin, 43 Global health ethics and
and Gerald Robertson cross-cultural considerations
in bioethics 341
35 Conflict of interest in education
Solomon R. Benatar
and patient care 266
Ann Sommerville 44 Physician participation in torture 350
Jerome Amir Singh
36 Public health ethics 274
Halley S. Faust and Ross Upshur 45 Access to medicines and the role
of corporate social responsibility:
37 Emergency and disaster
the need to craft a global
scenarios 281
pharmaceutical system with
Harvey Kayman, Howard Radest,
integrity 359
and Sally Webb
Jillian Clare Cohen-Kohler
38 Rural healthcare ethics 289 and Patricia Illingworth
William A. Nelson and
46 Global health and non-ideal
Jared M. Schmidek
justice 369
39 Community healthcare ethics 299 Gopal Sreenivasan
Kyle W. Anstey and Frank Wagner

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Section IX Religious and cultural perspectives Section X Specialty bioethics

in bioethics
Introduction 445
Introduction 379 A. M. Viens
Joseph M. Boyle, Jr. and
56 Surgical ethics 447
David Novak
James Andrews and Larry Zaroff
47 Aboriginal bioethics 383
57 Anesthesiology ethics 454
Jonathan H. Ellerby
Gail A. Van Norman
48 Buddhist bioethics 391
58 Critical and intensive care ethics 462
Damien Keown
Phillip D. Levin and Charles L. Sprung
49 Chinese bioethics 397
59 Emergency and trauma
Kerry W. Bowman
medicine ethics 469
and Edwin C. Hui
Arthur B. Sanders
50 Hindu and Sikh bioethics 403
60 Primary care ethics 475
Harold Coward and Tejinder Sidhu
Margaret Moon, Mark Hughes,
51 Islamic bioethics 408 and Jeremy Sugarman
Abdallah S. Daar, Tarif Bakdash,
61 Infectious diseases ethics 481
and Ahmed B. Khitamy
Jay A. Jacobson
52 Jehovah’s Witness bioethics 416
62 Psychiatric ethics 487
Osamu Muramoto
Sidney Bloch and Stephen A. Green
53 Jewish bioethics 424
63 Neuroethics 495
Gary Goldsand, Zahava
Eric Racine and Judy Illes
R.S. Rosenberg-Yunger,
and Michael Gordon 64 Pharmacy ethics 505
Margaret L. Eaton
54 Protestant bioethics 430
Merril Pauls 65 Alternative and complementary
and Roger C. Hutchinson care ethics 513
Michael H. Cohen
55 Roman Catholic bioethics 436
Hazel J. Markwell
and Barry F. Brown
Index 521

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