Ethics in Medicine (Paperback)

Part 1. Ethics through the ages: 1 . Early period.- 2. Greek period - Sophists and Socrates et al.- 3. Arab period.- 4. Bacon - Bertrand Russell.- 5. Voltaire - Dawkins- McIntyre.- Part 2. Metaphysics, religious- secular perspectives: 6. Analysis of secular and religious thought.- Part 3. Cultural anthropology and medical ethics: 7. Normative principles, autonomy, beneficence, non maleficence and justice.- 8. Universalism or Relativism.- 9. Medical ethics in a pluralistic society.- Part 4. Nomenclature and description: 10. Principles and sources of medical ethics.- 11. Justice: a pillar of ethics. Distributive justice and international clinical trials.- Part 5. The role of ethics in evolution of medicine: 12.Research ethics.- 13. Human experimentation.- 14. The scourge of drug trials.- 15. Human embryonic stem cell research.- 16. Stem cell in cultivation of sensory organs, curing deafness.- 17. Cybrid. Is science going mad?.- 18. Teaching medical ethics.- Part 6. Reproductive health, ART, IVF, Abortion, Pregenetic diagnosis (PGD): 19. Assisted Reproductive Technologies.- 20. IVF, Pre genetic diagnosis, termination of pregnancy.- 21. Surrogacy.- Part 7. Managed health care: 22. Rationing. Services within limited resources.- 23. Futility of treatment. Euthanasia.- 24. Therapeutic nihilism.- Part 8. Quality of life issues: 25. Care of the elderly, and QALYS.- 26. Hospices and palliative care.- 27. Controversial pathways , passive euthanasia. Assisted life termination.- 28. Assisted life prolongation and end of life issues.- Part 9. Physicians' oaths: 29. Lessons drawn from Duae Makaram Al Akhlaq.- 30. Hippocratic oath and contemporary faith based oaths.