Jacob M. Appel

Who Says You're Dead? (eBook, ePUB)

Medical & Ethical Dilemmas for the Curious & Concerned

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"An original, compelling, and provocative exploration of ethical issues in our society, with thoughtful and balanced commentary. I have not seen anything like it." ¿Alan Lightman, author of Einstein's Dreams Drawing upon the author's two decades teaching medical ethics, as well as his work as a practicing psychiatrist, this profound and addictive little book offers up challenging ethical dilemmas and asks readers, What would you do?

A daughter gets tested to see if she's a match to donate a kidney to her father. The test reveals that she is not the man's biological daughter. Should the doctor tell the father? Or the daughter?

A deaf couple prefers a deaf baby. Should they be allowed to use medical technology to ensure they have a child who can't hear?

Who should get custody of an embryo created through IVF when a couple divorces?

Or, when you or a loved one is on life support, Who says you're dead?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Algonquin Books
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781643750156
• Artikelnr.: 64257465

Autorenporträt

Jacob M. Appel is a physician, attorney, and bioethicist who serves as an attending psychiatrist in the Mount Sinai Healthcare System. He teaches ethics at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, where he is Director of Ethics Education in Psychiatry and a member of the Institutional Review Board. Appel has been a regular ethics columnist for Huffington Post and Opposing Views, and writes a monthly bioethics column for Education Update. A frequent lecturer on bioethical issues, Appel's essays relating to bioethics have appeared in the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, the San Francisco Chronicle, and many other outlets. When not engaged in bioethics, Appel writes fiction: He has published novels, short fiction collections, and prize-winning stories.