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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... responsibility. In the case of JoJo, for example, it may be that the comprehensiveness of his so- cialization absolves him from full moral responsibility for his acts, but does it follow that the acts are not the product of his own ...
... responsibility. In: Schoeman F, ed. Responsibility, Character and the Emotions. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Since the point of health care is to benefit the 2 THEORIES OF AUTONOMY 17.
... responsibility (such as the relationship between nurse and patient): here, we should refer to the responsibility-creating role and the expectations it is reasonable to attach to it. However, identifying the boundary between required and ...
... responsibility of health care workers. If we understand the primary application of beneficence to health care as deriving from the special re- lationship of trust that is created between professionals and their patients, this suggests a ...
... responsibility of furthering the medical interests of their patients when this is detrimental to their overall welfare. It is sometimes argued on these grounds that doctors' responsibilities extend to promoting the overall welfare of ...
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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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