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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... problem of doing harm' through testimony in criminal contexts and civil litigation – for example, by omitting information in the context of a trial, after which a more severe punishment is delivered to the person than likely would have ...
... problem. We will almost always, I have argued, be engaged in collecting evidence, reasoning and specifying general principles. This is how problems should be treated and how progress can be made in health care ethics. From this ...
... problem results in a regress unless we introduce a qualitative distinction among levels, for example, between higher-order values and first-order desires (Watson, 1975). However, the regress objection can be generalized to many ...
... problem, see Fishkin (1982). Moral philosophers have offered diverging responses to this problem. Arguably closest to moral 'common sense' is the view that the general requirements of beneficence are limited by considerations of the ...
... problem just mentioned, while preserving the attractive feature that a person's welfare will depend on what she takes an interest in. However, there remain two significant problems. One is that it seems we can have desires for objects ...
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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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