The Case of Terri Schiavo(1st Edition) Ethics at the End of Life by ArthurL. Caplan, Dominic A. Sisti, James J. Mccartney, Jay Wolfson, Prometheus Books Paperback, 377 Pages, Published 2006 by Prometheus Books ISBN-13: 978-1-59102-398-2, ISBN: 1-59102-398-X "After the Nancy Cruzan case was decided by the Supreme Court in 1990, and ultimately resolved by the Courts of the State of Missouri, the decision to withhold or withdraw life-prolonging nutrition and hydration appeared to many to be as noncontroversial as decisions to refuse respirators or dialysis. Even the Catholic Church held that, although there should be a presumption in favor of providing nutrition and hydration, the patient or t ..."
Health, Disease, and Illness(1st Edition) Concepts in Medicine by ArthurL. Caplan, James J. Mccartney, Dominic A. Sisti, Edmund D. Pellegrino Md, Arthur Leonard Caplan Paperback, 328 Pages, Published 2004 by Georgetown University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-58901-014-7, ISBN: 1-58901-014-0 "In the 1850s, "Drapetomania" was the medical term for a disease found among black slaves in the United States. The main symptom was a strange desire to run away from their masters. In earlier centuries gout was understood as a metabolic disease of the affluent, so much so that it became a badge of uppercrust honor -- and a medical excuse to avoid hard work. Today, is there such a thing as mental illness, or is mental illness just a myth ..."
