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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... values and beliefs. The moral demand that we respect the autonomy of persons can be expressed as a principle of respect for autonomy, which should be stated as involving both a negative obligation and a positive obligation. As a ...
... values as his own; second, an agent who has so internalized the outlooks and morés of the family in which she grew up that these are treated as authoritative without critical reflection (Feinberg, 1986, p. 32). Although in neither case ...
... value of autonomy. It is associated with the claim that autonomous agents are, and ought to be, self-sufficient, which in turn is associated with ... values that the autonomous agent must adopt. Nor are 12 PRINCIPLES OF HEALTH CARE ETHICS.
... values that the autonomous agent must adopt. Nor are there any standards or conditions external to the agent that operate as touchstones of autonomous reasoning or place constraints on the contents of agents' preferences and desires ...
... values and desires through being omnipresent in culture or instilled since birth by family socialization. Meyers points out that the enforcement of gender roles can interfere with a person's ability to distinguish between apparent and ...
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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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