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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... decisions about how a society will function before they know who in this so- ciety they will turn out to be. In the original position, they have abstracted away from a particular location in the society to which the principles of ...
... decisions that seem to be necessary for those decisions to be autonomous. She is not 'behind' her decisions and does not treat them as authoritative. Such failures of a sense of assurance in one's own capacity to form preferences and ...
... decision about whether or not to use hormone replacement therapy at menopause is complicated by factors other than ... decisions. REFERENCES Benson P. Freedom and value. JPhilos 1987; 84: 465–86. Benson P. Autonomy and oppressive ...
... decisions about my medical welfare that fall within the professional expertise of medical 6Here I am disagreeing with (Englehardt 1996, p. 70). staff and those broader decisions about my overall welfare that do not. This means two ...
... decision-making authority should lie in the treatment of children and incompetent adults. Decisions about the medical aspects of their welfare are rightly taken by medical professionals. How about decisions concerning those nonmedical ...
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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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