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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... individuals have different capacities for autonomous reasoning and that even the same individual will exercise these capacities to different degrees at different times. Third, whether a patient is in an oppressed group – in short, a ...
... individuals involved, but what is harder to see is how it can be relevant to cite the aggregate benefit to a group in justification of your treatment of any individual. And arguably, if the ethics of health care is grounded in the ...
... individual feelings of pleasure and 'disutility' equates to individual feelings of pain. (Frequently, scholars hesitate to use the term 'happiness,' which refers to a state of character in the Aristotelian tradition.) In that ...
... individual's actions should be structured by a system of inalienable property rights found in the world (these rights should function as moral and legal boundaries or 'sideconstraints' on what the individual may legitimately do). In a ...
... individual citizens. The late John Rawls' treatment – which he called 'justice as fairness' – is the most influential contemporary liberal theory of social justice. He begins by attempting to isolate those qualities and capacities that ...
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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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