Some choice : law, medicine, and the market
"In Some Choice, America's leading commentator on health law and bioethics, George J. Annas, demonstrates that in contemporary medicine there is seldom a meaningful choice to be made by the patient; the important choices have been made by others. The illusion of choice perversely fosters complacency and prevents us from dealing with critical issues of life and death." "Professor Annas uses the cases of human cloning, drive-through deliveries, emergency medicine, genetic privacy, human experimentation, tobacco control, and physician-assisted suicide, among others, to suggest ways in which we can break through our vapid and superficial "some choice" public discourse on life and death issues and begin to engage in a public dialogue that enriches our lives and society rather than commodifies and cheapens them."--Jacket
xvi, 303 ; 24 cm
9780195118322, 0195118324
38067672
1. Choice's Echo
2. Women and Children First
3. Exit, Voice, and Choice
4. Metaphors, Medicine, and the Market
5. Cancer, Prognosis, and Choice
6. Culture, Economics, and Choice
7. Treating the Untreatable
8. Outlawed Choices
9. Genetic Prophecy and Genetic Privacy
10. Choosing a (Healthy) President
11. A Woman's Choice at Work
12. A Soldier's Choice
13. Our Most Important Product
14. Plagued by Dreams
15. AIDS and TB Choices
16. Tobacco Choices
17. Cowboys and Camels
18. Smoking with the Devil
19. The Kevorkian Syndrome
20. Oregon's Bloodless Choice
21. The Bell Tolls
22. Toward a Globalization of Human Rights and Medical Ethics