Principles of Health Care EthicsRichard Edmund Ashcroft, Angus Dawson, Heather Draper, John McMillan John Wiley & Sons, 29. jun. 2007 - 864 strani 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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... argued in defence of, what has often been called the four principles approach to biomedical ethics, and now increasingly called principlism (Arras, 1994; Gert et al., 1997; Evans, 2000; Strong, 2000; Winkler, 1996). The four clusters of ...
... argued that this agent is 'atomistic'; that is, existing in a vacuum divorced from the social relations in which actual agents are embedded (e.g. Sandel, 1982). No such agent exists because agents are always the product of family ...
... argued that any views that health care professionals may have about the nonmedical aspects of my welfare are irrelevant to doing their job. A minister of religion (or a philosopher?) might claim professional expertise in giving general ...
... argument penetrated all cases in which causality was in question. The special topics designate those features that ... Arguments about the advisability and value of marriage and about responsibilities within it will dwell within this ...
... argued in his turn that 'higher' pleasures should be given more weight in the utility calculations than 'lower' ones. According to him, these more advanced enjoyments involve complex mental functions and would be preferred by a person ...
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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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