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Author Häyry, Heta

Title The limits of medical paternalism / Heta Häyry
Published London ; New York : Routledge, 1991

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Description 1 online resource (208 pages)
Series Social ethics and policy series
Social ethics and policy series.
Contents Chapter 1 THE PROBLEM OF PATERNALISM IN MODERN MEDICINE AND HEALTH CARE -- chapter 2 FREEDOM, CONSTRAINT AND THE VALUE OF AUTONOMY -- chapter 3 PATERNALISM, COERCION AND CONSTRAINT -- chapter 4 THE UTILITARIAN CASE FOR STRONG PATERNALISM -- chapter 5 MORALS AND SOCIETY -- chapter 6 APPEALS TO RATIONALITY: THE VARIETIES OF PRUDENTIALISM -- chapter 7 THE LIMITS OF MEDICAL PATERNALISM Autonomy, consent and professional
Summary The Limits of Medical Paternalism defines and morally assesses paternalistic interventions, especially in the context of modern medicine and health care, particular emphasis is given to the analysis of the conceptual background of the paternalism issue. In this book an anti-paternalistic view is presented and defended
Analysis Medicine Ethics
Medicine Ethics
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Medical personnel and patient.
Paternalism.
Medical personnel -- Psychology
Physician and patient.
Patient Advocacy
Physician-Patient Relations
Ethics, Medical
Morals
Professional-Patient Relations
MEDICAL -- Physicians.
Physician and patient
Medical personnel and patient
Medical personnel -- Psychology
Paternalism
Patriarchalismus
Patient
Medizinische Ethik
Entscheidung
Selbstbestimmung
Arzt
Medische ethiek.
Paternalisme.
Arts-patiënt-relatie.
médecine -- paternalisme.
Genre/Form Computer network resources
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0585451508
9780585451503
9781134923830
113492383X