Everybody wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to die : bioethics and the transformation of health care in America / Amy Gutmann and Jonathan D. Moreno
By: Gutmann, Amy [co-author].
Contributor(s): Moreno, Jonathan D [co-author] | Liveright Publishing Corporation [publisher] | W.W. Norton & Company [publisher].
Publisher: New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, ©2019Edition: First edition.Description: 336 p: 25 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780871404466; 087140446X.Subject(s): Medical ethics -- United States | Medical care -- United States | Bioethical Issues | Delivery of Health Care -- ethics | Health Priorities -- ethics | Economics, Medical -- ethics | United StatesGenre/Form: Print books.| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| On Shelf | R724 .G88 2019 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU00000000015733 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-315) and index
Introduction: A duty to tell -- Part I. New Voices : -- 1. Changing times -- 2. Bioethics goes public -- 3. The public's health -- Part II. Matters of Life and Death : -- 4. Uneasy deaths -- 5. The high price of unfair health care -- 6. Foraging for ethics -- Part III. Moral Science : -- 7. Human experiments -- 8. Reproductive technologies -- 9. Opening cell doors -- Epilogue: Transforming minds
Americans today pay far more for health care while having among the lowest life expectancies and highest infant mortality of any affluent nation. Gutmann and Moreno explain how bioethics came to dominate the national spotlight, leading and responding to a revolution in doctor-patient relations, a burgeoning world of organ transplants, and new reproductive technologies that benefit millions but create a host of legal and ethical challenges. They address head-on the most fundamental challenges in American health care, while exploring the American paradox of wanting to have it all without paying the price. -- adapted from jacket