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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... women's natural physical appearance is deficient. The internalization of the norm blocks her capacity to effectively criticize this 'false construal of [her] personal value', and hence her ability to distinguish correct from incorrect ...
... women as a group. A patient's 'normative competence' – that is, her ability to evaluate cultural norms which she takes as applicable to her and to reject them if they are inapplicable – may be diminished; and her self-confidence and ...
... women, adequate food for all and safe water and sanitation for all is ... less than 4% of the combined wealth of the 225 richest people in the world' (UNDP, 1998, p. 30). The WHO Commission on Macroeconomics and Health (chaired by ...
... women, tend to have a greater claim on the pool of available resources even if they fall within the same income group, class or even family. Moreover, he claims that his capabilities approach is better able to accommodate cultural ...
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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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