Medical ethics /

"This series covers today's most current national and international issues and the most important opinions of the past and present. The purpose of the series is to introduce readers to all sides of contemporary controversies"-- Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-200) and index.

Overview: Americans' approval of healthcare law declines / Jeffrey M. Jones -- Health care is a right and must be provided to all Americans / Bernie Sanders -- It is immoral to treat health care as a right / Paul Hsieh -- Public health insurance programs are immoral and unaffordable / D.W. MacKenzie -- Public health insurance programs are morally required / Robert B. Reich -- Conscience exemptions for individuals and businesses are needed / Edmund F. Haislmaier -- Religious freedom should not allow employers to deny medical care / Marci A. Hamilton -- Overview: Fairness in dispensing donated organs / Catherine Hollander -- Presumed consent is the most ethical and effective organ donation system / Stu Strumwasser -- Cash for kidneys : the case for a market for organs / Gary S. Becker and Julio J. Elias -- Organ transplants should be rare and not for gain / Miran Epstein -- The dead-donor rule is ethically central to organ donation / L. Syd M. Johnson -- The dead-donor rule and the future of organ donation / Robert D. Truog, Franklin G. Miller, and Scott D. Halpern -- A kidney for a kidney / Sally Satel -- Condemned prisoners should not be able to donate organs after execution / Wesley J. Smith -- Overview: Reproductive technologies and social controversy / Anne Kingsley -- Prenatal genetic screening enhances autonomy / Ronald Bailey -- "Designer babies" aren't coming. The New York Times is just trying to scare you / Jessica Grose -- It's time to make paid surrogacy legal in New York / Leslie Morgan Steiner -- Gattaca at 15 : the dystopian sci-fi thriller is fast becoming our reality / Daniel Allott -- Three-parent embryos illustrate ethical problems with technologies / Brendan P. Foht -- Breeding exploitation : the faces of surrogacy / Jennifer Lahl, interviewed by Kathryn Jean Lopez -- Unethical uses of reproductive technologies / Margaret Somerville -- Overview: Views on end-of-life medical treatments / Pew Research Center -- The rights of patients support physician aid in dying / John M. Grohol -- Should doctors participate in executions? / Ty Alper, interviewed by Rachel Martin -- It is time to integrate abortion into primary care / Susan Yanow -- Medical professionals should not have to participate in the taking of life / Wesley J. Smith -- It is an ethics violation for doctors to perform death penalty executions / Ford Vox -- Moral disapproval of abortion justifies doctor refusal to provide it / E. Christian Brugger.