Some Moral Implications of Its Acquisition, Possession, and Use
edited by William B. Bondeson, H. Tristram Engelhardt, Stuart F. Spicker, Joseph M. White.
Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1982
(248 pages).
Philosophy and medicine, 10.
Section I / The Physician as Moral Arbiter --;The Physician as a Moral Force in American History --;The Physician as Moral Arbiter --;Section II / The Costs of New Knowledge --;Moral Issues Relating to the Economics of New Knowledge in the Biomedical Sciences --;Only the Best is Good Enough? --;Section III / Costs, Benefits, and the Responsibilities of Medical Science --;Morality and the Social Control of Biomedical Technology --;Rights and Responsibilities in Medical Science --;Health, Justice, and Responsibility --;Section IV / Biomedical Knowledge: Libertarian vs. Socialist Models --;The Need to Know: Utilitarian and Esthetic Values of Biomedical Science --;Medical Knowledge as a Social Product: Rights, Risks, and Responsibilities --;Biomedical Knowledge: Progress and Priorities --;Section V / Biomedical Ethics and Advances in Biomedical Science --;Applying Morality to Advances in Biomedicine: Can and Should This be Done? --;Biomedicine, Health Care Policy, and the Adequacy of Ethical Theory --;Section VI / Conclusions and Reflections: Present and Future Problems --;Why New Technology is More Problematic than Old Technology --;The Uses of Biomedical Knowledge: The End of the Era of Optimism? --;The Best is Yet to Come --;Scientific Advance, Technological Development, and Society --;The Life-World and the Patient's Expectations of New Knowledge --;Epilogue --;Notes on Contributors.
The spectacular development of medical knowledge over the last two centuries has brought intrusive advances in the capabilities of medical technology. As a consequence of the development of new biomedical knowledge, physicians and biomedical scientists have been placed in positions of new power and responsibility.
Ethics.
Philosophy (General)
edited by William B. Bondeson, H. Tristram Engelhardt, Stuart F. Spicker, Joseph M. White.