Frontiers in Bioethics: Essays Dedicated to John C. Fletcher

by Franklin G. Miller (Editor), Dorothy C. Wertz (Contributor), Jonathan D. Moreno (Contributor)

Contents:

- Society and the not-so-new genetics: what are we afraid of? some future predictions from a social scientist by Dorothy C. Wertz
- Reassessing the influence of the Nuremberg Code on American medical ethics by Jonathan D. Moreno
- Physician-assisted suicide: a tragic view by John D. Arras
- Clinical pragmatism: John Dewey and clinical ethics by Franklin G. Miller, Joseph J. Fins, and Matthew D. Bacchetta
- Medicine, eugenics, and the Supreme Court: from coercive sterilization to reproductive freedom by Paul A. Lombardo
- Elective fetal reduction: the ultimate elective surgery by Mary V. Rorty and JoAnne D. Pinkerton
- Managed care: some basic ethical issues by Edward M. Spencer and Ann E. Mills
- The Fletcher legacy: the arrow flies straight and true by Mary Faith Marshall

216 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2000