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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... duty is one that is always to be acted upon unless it conflicts on a particular occasion with another duty. One's actual duty, by contrast, is determined by an examination of 1 THE 'FOUR PRINCIPLES' APPROACH TO HEALTH CARE ETHICS 7.
... duty in the face of these conflicts of prima facie duties. I will discuss how this is to be done in the section below on specification. Once we acknowledge that all general principles have exceptions, we are free to view every moral ...
... duty, and distance. Philos Public Aff 2004; 32: 357–83. National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research. The Belmont Report: Ethical Principles and Guidelinesfor the Protection ofHuman ...
... duty'. I have a duty to treat others beneficently, but have discretion over when and towards whom I perform beneficent actions: I need not be doing so all the time. This attractive idea needs interpretation and defence, however. It is ...
... duty to avoid harm differently from a duty to produce good. Holding on to two different principles – beneficence and nonmaleficence – makes all the analysis of mechanisms for combining benefit and harm considerations easier. For a ...
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xxiii | |
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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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