Main description:

Responding to the increased public interest in the moral aspects of medical practice, this collection of essays focuses on questions of justice and injustice in the delivery and distribution of medical care and on problems concerning the rights of patients in their relationship to doctors, medical institutions, and government. Originally published in 1982. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Contents:

*FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. v*On the Distinction between Disease and Illness, pg. 3*Human Being: The Boundaries of the Concept, pg. 23*Brain Death and Personal Identity, pg. 49*Health-Care Needs and Distributive Justice, pg. 81*Medical Progress and National Health Care, pg. 115*Gifts and Exchanges, pg. 139*Altruism and Commerce: A Defense of Titmuss against Arrow, pg. 159*The Recombinant DNA Debate, pg. 168*An Alternative Policy for Obtaining Cadaver Organs for Transplantation, pg. 187*Paternalistic Behavior, pg. 201*Medical Paternalism, pg. 214*The Contractual Argument for Withholding Medical Information, pg. 235*Voluntary Euthanasia and the Inalienable Right to Life, pg. 245*Euthanasia, pg. 276