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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... children have been injured by speeding drivers and money is needed to pay for an expensive medical treatment ... child is a compatriot and someone else was the driver. My view entails that in a situation like this you have © 2007 ...
... child; and most would probably agree. In institutional contexts, by contrast, my view is likely to be quite ... children under age 5 (UNICEF 2005, inside front cover). This massive poverty is not due to overall scarcity. The '$2/day ...
... children fatherless? Would it not be better to force a transfusion on him and let him be welcomed back to family and ... child increases and the moral challenge to parental authority grows stronger. This simple example (which in reality ...
... children possible, both in terms of health and in terms of non-health-related traits and qualities, including ... child's condition is hopeless or its quality of life would be very low, provided that this is what the parents wish ...
... children, for example, have a claim on our attention and resources that other people's children do not. It follows that it would be wrong to neglect our own children, even if we could thereby do slightly more good for other children ...
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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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