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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... Utilitarianism and Bioethics Matti Häyry 9 Deontology David A. McNaughton and J. Piers Rawling 10 Kantian Ethics Onora O'Neill 11 Feminist Approaches to Health Care Ethics Susan Sherwin 12 Virtue Theory Justin Oakley 13 Moral Relativism ...
... utilitarianism, Häyry gives an interesting account of the way the utilitarian arguments function in bioethics. There is a tendency for introductions to ethics to mention only Kant when introducing deontology, with the consequence that ...
... utilitarianism, Kagan, 1989; Miller, 2004; Singer, 1993; 1999) seem to demand severe sacrifice and extreme generosity ... utilitarian theories, and we defend a mixed use of principles in these theories. We think that these three theories ...
... Utilitarianism is the most famous theory of this kind: it adds the further claim that welfare consists entirely in happiness. Utilitarianism in effect explains the moral importance of beneficence by saying that morality is impartial ...
... Utilitarianism and Beyond. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982. Rawls, J. A Theory of Justice. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press 1999a [1971]. Rawls J. The Law ofPeoples. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999b. Sen ...
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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