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Author May, Thomas, 1964-

Title Bioethics in a liberal society : the political framework of bioethics decision making / Thomas May
Published Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 135 pages)
Contents Patient autonomy -- Patient autonomy and informed consent -- Patient responsibility for decision making -- Advance directives: extending autonomy for patients -- Professional rights of conscience -- Beneficence, abandonment, and the duty to treat -- Rights of conscience in the physician-patient relationship -- Conclusion: health care ethics committees and consultants in a liberal framework
Summary "Issues concerning patients' rights are at the center of bioethics, but the political basis for these rights has rarely been examined. In Bioethics in a Liberal Society: The Political Framework of Bioethics Decision Making, Thomas May offers a compelling analysis of how the political context of liberal constitutional democracy shapes the rights and obligations of both patients and health care professionals. May focuses on how a key feature of liberal society - namely, an individual's right to make independent decisions - has an impact on the most important relational facets of health care, such as patients' autonomy and professionals' rights of conscience." "Although a liberal political framework protects individual judgments, May asserts that this right is based on the assumption of an individual's competency to make sound decisions. May uses case studies to examine society's approach to medical decision making when, for reasons ranging from age to severe mental disorder, a person lacks sufficient competency to make independent and fully informed choices. To protect the autonomy of these vulnerable patients, May emphasizes the need for health care ethics committees and ethics consultants to help guide the decision-making process in clinical settings."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 127-131) and index
Notes English
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Subject Medical ethics.
Bioethics.
Liberalism.
Decision making.
Patient Advocacy
Ethics, Medical
Decision Making
Professional Autonomy
liberalism.
decision making.
MEDICAL -- Ethics.
Decision making
Bioethics
Liberalism
Medical ethics
Bio-ethiek.
Medische ethiek.
Liberalisme.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0801876486
9780801876486
9780801868023
0801868025
9780801892820
0801892821