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Title Principles of health care ethics
Edition Second edition / [edited by Richard E. Ashcroft [and others]
Published Chichester, West Sussex, England ; Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, [2007]
©2007
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Description 1 online resource (xxiv, 838 pages) : illustrations
Series Wiley SCELC e-books
Contents Disability without denial -- Disability and equity: should difference be welcomed? -- Genetic counselling -- Ethics and psychotherapy: an issue of trust -- Mental illness and compulsory treatment -- Personality disorders and compulsory detention -- Labia mea, domine: media, morality and eating disorders -- Intellectual disability -- Ethical issues and health care for older people -- Organs and tissues for transplantation and research -- Living donor organ transplantation -- Euthanasia and principled health care ethics: from conflict to compromise? -- Understanding and misunderstanding death -- Ethics without boundaries: medical tourism -- Ethics of performance enhancement in sport: drugs and gene doping -- Training good professionals: ethics and health care education -- Ethics consultation and ethics committees -- The concepts of health and illness -- Community in public health ethics -- Health promotion, society and health care ethics -- Preventing disease -- Quantitative methods for priority-setting in health: ethical issues -- Economics, political philosophy and ethics: the role of public preferences in health care decision-making -- Decision analysis: the ethical approach to most health decision making -- Health inequities and the social determinants of health -- Organizational ethics in health care -- Ethical issues in epidemiology -- Screening: ethical aspects -- Vaccination ethics -- The patient as victim and vector: bioethics and the challenge of infectious diseases -- Bioterrorism, society and health care ethics -- Drug addiction, society and ethics -- Smoking: is acceptance of the risks fully voluntary? Doctors and human rights -- Duties to refugees and asylum seekers in host countries' medical systems -- Medical aid in disaster relief -- The ethics and governance of medical research -- On the ethics of animal research -- The ethical requirement for systematic reviews for randomized trials -- Informed consent for research -- Evaluating benefits and harms in clinical research -- Patients' obligations? -- Standard of care owed to participants in clinical trials: different standards in different countries? -- Justice and priority setting in international health care research -- Obligations of the pharmaceutical industry -- Ethics and medical publishing -- Human reproductive cloning -- Obtaining human eggs for stem cell research: ethical issues -- The ethics of xenotransplantation -- Pharmacogenomics -- Ethical issues in human gene transfer: a historical overview -- The ethics of ageing, immortality and genetics -- Ethical issues of enhancement technologies -- Psychosurgery and neuroimplantation: changing what is deep within a person -- Resisting addiction: novel application of vaccines
The 'four principles' approach to health care ethics -- Theories of autonomy -- Beneficence -- Responsibilities for poverty-related ill health -- Liberalism and communitarianism -- How many principles for bioethics? -- Casuistical reasoning in medical ethics -- Utilitarianism and bioethics -- Deontology -- Kantian ethics -- Feminist approaches to health care ethics -- Virtue theory -- Moral relativism -- Christian approaches to bioethics -- Judaism and medicine: Jewish medical ethics -- The search for Islamic bioethics principles -- Buddhist bioethics -- South Asian approaches to health care ethics -- The specious idea of an Asian bioethics: beyond dichotomizing east and west -- Narrative ethics -- Empirical appoaches to health care ethics -- Medical sociology and the redundancy of empirical ethics -- The use of thought experiments in health care ethics -- Deliberative bioethics -- Law, ethics and health care -- Medical humanities: an overview -- Reflective equilibrium as a method in health care ethics -- Hermeneutic ethics between practice and theory -- Paternalism in health care and health policy -- Need: an instrumental view -- Rights -- Exploitation in health care -- Competence to consent -- The doctrine of double effect -- Ordinary and extraordinary means -- Acts and omissions -- Personhood and moral status -- Commodification -- Consent and informed consent -- Treatment decisions for incapacitated patients -- Children's consent to medical treatment -- Patients and disclosure of surgical risk -- Confidentiality -- Truth telling, lying and the doctor-patient relationship -- Personal beliefs and patient care -- Conscience and health care ethics -- Care in families -- The ethics of primary health care -- The nurse-patient relationship: a 'principles plus care' account -- Dual responsibilities: do they raise any different ethical issues from 'normal' therapeutic relationships? -- Violent and abusive patients: an ethically informed response -- The moral significance of the human foetus -- Will we need abortion in Utopia? -- Maternal-foetal conflict -- Limits to reproductive liberty
Summary 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
Analysis Electronic books
Notes Title from title screen (viewed on Nov. 14, 2007)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Medical ethics.
Bioethical Issues.
Biomedical Technology -- ethics.
Delivery of Health Care -- ethics.
Ethics, Clinical.
Professional-Patient Relations -- ethics.
Social Medicine.
Form Electronic book
Author Ashcroft, Richard E.
ISBN 0470510536 (electronic bk.)
0470842466
9780470510537 (electronic bk.)
9780470842461