Principles of Health Care EthicsRichard Edmund Ashcroft, Angus Dawson, Heather Draper, John McMillan John Wiley & Sons, 29 de jun. de 2007 - 864 páginas Edited by four leading members of the new generation of medical and healthcare ethicists working in the UK, respected worldwide for their work in medical ethics, Principles of Health Care Ethics, Second Edition is a standard resource for students, professionals, and academics wishing to understand current and future issues in healthcare ethics. With a distinguished international panel of contributors working at the leading edge of academia, this volume presents a comprehensive guide to the field, with state of the art introductions to the wide range of topics in modern healthcare ethics, from consent to human rights, from utilitarianism to feminism, from the doctor-patient relationship to xenotransplantation. This volume is the Second Edition of the highly successful work edited by Professor Raanan Gillon, Emeritus Professor of Medical Ethics at Imperial College London and former editor of the Journal of Medical Ethics, the leading journal in this field. Developments from the First Edition include: The focus on ‘Four Principles Method’ is relaxed to cover more different methods in health care ethics. More material on new medical technologies is included, the coverage of issues on the doctor/patient relationship is expanded, and material on ethics and public health is brought together into a new section. |
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... benefits and balance benefits against risks and costs); (4) justice (a group of principles requiring appropriate distribution of benefits, risks and costs fairly). I will concentrate now on an explication of each of the principles and ...
... benefit other persons. In health care ethics beneficence commonly refers to an action done to benefit others, whereas benevolence refers to the character trait or virtue of being disposed to act for the benefit of others. The principle ...
... benefit on anyone. BENEFICENCE AND WELFARE Beneficent action seeks to promote others' welfare – or to put it another way (as I have been doing already) to promote their interests, do what is good for them or benefit them. For guidance ...
... benefit we can, and should, confer upon them. THE VIRTUES OF BENEFICENCE Like many moral qualities, beneficence can be attributed both to particular actions and to people who characteristically perform them. Used in the latter way, it ...
... benefit. We can say this without ceding authority to medical staff to act on judgements about their patients' overall interests. It is a patient's prerogative to do that. But medical professionals may have special expertise about the ...
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PART II Issues In Health Care Practice | 293 |
PART III Medicine In Society | 535 |
PART IV Research Ethics And Ethics Of New Technologies | 679 |
Index | 827 |
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