Arthur L. Caplan

When Medicine Went Mad

Bioethics and the Holocaust

In When Medicine Went Mad, one of the nation's leading bioethicists-and an extraordinary panel of experts and concentration camp survivors-examine pro...

Am I My Brother's Keeper?

The Ethical Frontiers of Biomedicine

"... this book is though-provoking, bringing a scientist's reason and a moralist's outrage to bear on a subject that's largely escaped attention." -- ...

Smart Mice, Not So Smart People

An Interesting and Amusing Guide to Bioethics

What do you think about cloning, stem cell research, brain enhancement, or doing experiments on newly dead patients? Read Smart Mice, Not so Smart Peo...

If I Were a Rich Man Could I Buy a Pancreas?

And Other Essays on the Ethics of Health Care

"An important contribution to a debate that will continue for some time." -- Health and Canadian Society "Insightful and thought-provoking.... As Capl...

Due Consideration

Controversy in the Age of Medical Miracles

If scientists can successfully clone sheep, will humans be next? Today's headlines read like a science fiction novel! Due Consideration takes a poigna...

The Penn Center Guide to Bioethics

Named an Outstanding Academic Title for 2009 byChoice! "[A] set of almost 70 essays, all well informed and many with attitude." Harold Shapiro, PhD Pr...

The Fulbright Brainstorms on Bioethics

Bioethics : Frontiers and New Challenges

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Health, Disease, and Illness

Concepts in Medicine

Drapetomania was a little-known disease found among black slaves in the United States in the 1850s. The main symptom, according to medical opinion? Th...

1001 Ideas That Changed the Way We Think

Fully updated for 2021, 1001 Ideas That Changed The Way We Think is a comprehensive guide to the most interesting and imaginative thoughts from the fi...

Beyond Baby M

Ethical Issues in New Reproductive Techniques

Arthur L. Caplan It is commonly said, especially when the subject is assisted reproduction, that medical technology has out stripped our morality. Yet...

Applied Ethics in Mental Health Care

An Interdisciplinary Reader

This book discusses some of the most critical ethical issues in mental health care today, including the moral dimensions of addiction, patient autonom...

Prescribing Our Future

Ethical Challenges in Genetic Counseling

Genetic counselors translate the findings of scientific investigation into meaningful accounts that enable individuals and families to make decisions ...

Genetic Counseling

Ethical Challenges and Consequences

Genetic counseling is fairly new. The fact that the field is an accepted professional enterprise in universities, clinics, and hospitals throughout th...

Everyday Ethics

Resolving Dilemmas in Nursing Home Life

Offers authoritative explorations of the way ethical principles involving respect for autonomy, beneficience, and justice interplay in the world of ca...

Which Babies Shall Live?

Humanistic Dimensions of the Care of Imperiled Newborns

The fate of seriously ill newborns has captured the atten tion of the public, of national and state legislators, and of powerful interest groups. For ...

Self-Trust and Reproductive Autonomy

A study of the importance of self-trust for women's autonomy in reproductive health....

Compelled Compassion

Government Intervention in the Treatment of Critically Ill Newborns

In April 1982, an infant boy was born in Bloomington, Indiana, with Down syndrome and a defective, but surgically correctable, esophagus. His parents ...

Ethical Conflicts in the Management of Home Care

The Case Manager's Dilemma

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