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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... question in interpreting the moral requirements of beneficence is what distinguishes appropriate from inappropriate ways of furthering welfare. Examining that question is a major focus of this chapter. Other questions I shall discuss ...
... question to ask; it is not the only one, however. Beneficence is the appropriate furthering of others' welfare. The important secondary question, then, is whether the promotion of welfare for those who have it is being achieved by ...
... question often discussed in textbooks of professional ethics is how to find a 'balance' between professionalism and personal concern. This is a question about the proper expression of beneficence in professional contexts. The discussion ...
... question; but the question to answer in this case is the direct one: what is best for the patient; not how the patient would have answered that question. On this issue, see Dresser 4 Responsibilities for Poverty-Related Ill Health ...
... question of the significance of the differences among the lists. SINGLE-PRINCIPLE THEORIES Utilitarianism That utility is an example of a principle makes clear that some principle-based normative theories can incorporate only a single ...
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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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