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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... Moral Status Ainsley J. Newson Commodification Stephen Wilkinson PART II: ISSUES IN HEALTH CARE PRACTICE Introduction by Heather Draper 39 Consent and Informed Consent Neil C. Manson 117 127 135 143 151 159 167 177 185 193 199 207 215 ...
... ethics. The remaining chapters explain important concepts such as Competence to Consent (Jonas), The Doctrine of Double Effect (Uniacke), Ordinary and Extraordinary Means (John), Acts and Omissions (Takala), Personhood and Moral Status ...
... status of the moral and other norms that autonomous agents identify. For example, it has been argued that moral norms are objective because they derive from the requirements of objective reason (Wolf, 1990). If this is right, the ...
... status as free and equal citizens' (Rawls, 2001, p. 169). Specifically, he sketches what justice requires society to provide for citizens when they are either 'seriously ill or suffer from severe accidents from time to time' (Rawls ...
... status in some respects: the Allies fought World War II for a just cause, the obliteration of Nazi aggression. In other respects, clear departures from the paradigm can be properly condemned: saturation bombing by the Allies in World ...
Conteúdo
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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