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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... 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 ...
... involved. People can be so involved through their ordinary conduct or through their role in upholding an institutional order. In the case of ordinary interpersonal re- lations, for example, one's moral reasons to drive carefully and to ...
... involved in upholding substantially contribute to their incidence, have greater moral weight for us than compatriots' medical conditions in whose causation we are not materially involved. This combined thesis is radical if social ...
... involved in it as well. It is true, of course, that these institutions are shaped by our politicians. But we live in reasonably democratic states where we can choose politicians and political programmes from a wide range of alternatives ...
... involved in upholding not only the economic order of their own so- ciety but also the global economic order, we can say two things about such citizens: pursuant to my second thesis, they have equally strong moral reason to prevent and ...
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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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