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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... philosophical centre of gravity of the field. In this preface we describe how we decided to reshape the volume in the light of current priorities in health care and biomedical ethics. A great strength of the first edition of this volume ...
... philosophers, and we have favoured philosophical over legal or social science approaches to our chosen topics, but in many cases the articles do present empirical as well as theoretical, and positive as well as normative material, and ...
... philosophical concept, hermeneutics, can be employed as a method in health care ethics. The last 10 chapters in Part one are similar in that they all explain moral concepts, distinctions or doctrines that are central to health care ...
... philosophical and practical roles these principles play. I start with a brief history and then turn to the four principles framework, its practicality, and philosophical problems of making the framework specific. THE ORIGINS OF ...
... philosophical problem. JUSTIFYING SPECIFICATIONS USING THE METHOD OF COHERENCE A specification is justified, in the four principles approach, if and only if it maximizes the coherence of the overall set of relevant, justified beliefs ...
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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