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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... role. But just what is judgement, how is it done, how should it be done? Kant pointed out that there could be no rules for judgement between conflicting rules, on pain of an infinite regress. What then? Maybe it is in the context of ...
... role in the principles debate, and in How many principles?, he considers the merits of other principle-based approaches to health care ethics that use fewer or more than four principles. One important question about the application of ...
... role. For example, 'the decision about whether or not to use hormone replacement therapy at menopause is complicated by factors other than inadequate and inconsistent evidence' (McLeod & Sherwin 2000, p. 269). A decision to use hormone ...
... Role in Contemporary Moral Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005a. Taylor JS, ed. Personal Autonomy: New Essays on Personal Autonomy and Its Role in Contemporary Moral Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press ...
... role and the expectations it is reasonable to attach to it. However, identifying the boundary between required and discretionary beneficence is a more difficult problem when it comes to our general relationship towards other needy ...
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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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