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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, author.

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New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2019]

Medical ethics -- United States.

Medical care -- United States.

9780871404466 (hardcover) :

087140446X (hardcover) :

336 pages ; 25 cm

Introduction: A duty to tell -- New voices. Changing times ; Bioethics goes public ; The public's health -- Matters of life and death. Uneasy deaths ; The high price of unfair health care ; Foraging for ethics -- Moral science. Human experiments ; Reproductive technologies ; 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

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