Tom Walker

Ethics and Chronic Illness

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides an account of the ethics of chronic illness. Chronic illness has features problematise key distinctions that underlie much existing work in medical ethics including those between beneficence and autonomy, between treatment and prevention, and between the recipient and provider of treatment.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9781032093017
• ISBN-10: 1032093013
• Artikelnr.: 62149877

Autorenporträt

Tom Walker is Senior Lecturer in Ethics and Director of the Centre for the Study of Risk and Inequality at Queen's University Belfast, UK

Inhaltsangabe

1. The Problem: Ethics and Chronic Illness
2. Working Out What Will Benefit Patients
3. Is an Informed Patient's Choice Good Evidence that the Option Chosen Is
What Is Best for Him?
4. 'It Should Be Up to the Patient What Happens to Her'
5. Consent and the Treatment of Chronic Illness
6. How to Respond to Non-Adherence
7. Broadening Our Vision: The Role of Families and Others
8. Changes Over Time
9. Conclusion