Humanistic perspectives in medical ethics / edited by Maurice B. Visscher.

Buffalo : Prometheus Books ; London : Pemberton Books, 1972.

xiii, 297 pages ; 22 cm

The humanistic tradition in the health professions / Chauncey D. Leake -- Medical ethics in philosophical perspective / Patrick Romanell -- The sanctity-of-life principle / Marvin Kohl -- The right to die / Walter C. Alvarez -- The evolution of the right-to-health concept in the U.S. / Carleton B. Chapman & John M. Talmadge -- The fee-for-service system / H. Roy Kaplan -- The ethics of the physician in human reproduction / Howard C. Taylor -- Birth defects / Leroy Augenstein -- Human experimentation / Louis Lasagna -- Medical ethics and psychotropic drugs / Mervyn F. Silverman & Deborah B. Silverman -- Prison doctors / Tom Murton -- Medicine and the military / Gordon Livingston -- Beyond atrocity / Robert Jay Lifton -- Social ethics for medical educators / John G. Bruhn & Douglas C. Smith.

Includes bibliographical references.