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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... particular contexts. But common to almost all theories of justice – and accepted in the four principles approach – is the minimal (formal) principle that like cases should be treated alike, or, to use the language of equality, equals ...
... particular situations. When principles contingently conflict, no supreme principle is available – in the four principles approach – to determine an overriding obligation. Therefore, discretionary judgement becomes an inescapable part of ...
... Particular moralities are, from this perspective, continuous works in progress – a process rather than a finished product. There is no reason to think that morality can be rendered coherent in only one way through the process of ...
... particular those of coercion and ignorance – is sufficient to secure a patient's autonomy. Contemporary theories of autonomy challenge this minimalist notion, however, and suggest that agents' (and therefore patients') decision-making ...
... particular location in the society to which the principles of justice apply. This means that such agents, like Kantian agents, are uninfluenced by the particular desires and preferences arising from being embedded in an actual situation ...
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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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