Life and Death : Philosophical Essays in Biomedical Ethics (Paperback)

Part I. Physicians and Patients Making Treatment Decisions: 1. Informed consent; 2. The ideal of shared decision making between physicians and patients; 3. When competent patients make irrational choices (co-authored by Steven A. Wartman); Part II. Life-and-Death Decisions in the Clinic: 4. Moral rights and permissible killing; 5. Taking human life; 6. Death and dying; 7. Forgoing life-sustaining food and water: Is it killing?; 8. Voluntary active euthanasia; Part III. Life-and-Death Decisions in Health Policy: 9. The value of prolonging human life; 10. Quality of life measures in health care and medical ethics; 11. The problem of low benefit/high cost health care; 12. Justice and the severely demented elderly; 13. Justice, health care, and the elderly; 14. Truth or consequences: the role of philosophers in policy-making; Index.