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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... relevant to health care ethics, many of the chapters introduce moral theory at a fairly advanced level. The first ... relevance of the liberalism/communitarianism debate for health care ethics. Veatch played an important role in the ...
... relevant characteristics for equal treatment. Principles that specify these relevant characteristics are often said to be 'material' because they identify relevant properties for distribution. Childress and I take account of the fact ...
... relevant to answering that 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 ...
... relevant to human health. In fact, poverty is far and away the most important factor in explaining existing health deficits. Because they are poor, 850 million people are malnourished and 2600 million lack access to basic sanitation ...
... relevant topics. These are the 'boxes' into which all particular cases of clinical care can be sorted. The first topic is about medical indications, the physical signs and symptoms that suggest to persons that they seek the aid of ...
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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