Calman Downie, Kenneth C. Calman, R. S. Downie

Healthy Respect

Ethics in Health Care

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Health care professionals are becoming increasingly aware of the moral dilemmas fundamental to their work. Healthy Respect introduces and analyses the moral concepts and values of health care for all those working in the medical profession, in order that they may examine their own moral and value judgements and appreciate how they might be influenced by them at work. The topics covered include: consent, confidentiality, giving or withholding information, the economics of healthcare, terminal care, resuscitation, testing of drugs Written in a clear, easily accessible style, this book presents many questions, cases and exercises throughout which will stimulate thought and discussion in the reader making it highly suited to all those actively engaged in health care.

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The book offers an introduction to the moral concepts and value of health care. It is written by a moral philosopher, a doctor and a nurse and contains questions, cases and exercises which are suitable for medical, nursing and all students and commentators on health care. Moral dilemmas include consent, confidentiality, the giving or withholding of information, and the economics of health care. The issues of artificial reproduction, terminal care and the research and testing of drugs are addressed.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Second
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Mai 1994
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 442g
• ISBN-13: 9780192624086
• ISBN-10: 0192624083
• Artikelnr.: 21377448

Inhaltsangabe

Preface to second edition
1.: Knowledge, skills, and values
2.: Scientific understanding and decision-making
3.: Moral values
4.: Autonomy and respect
5.: Embryos, persons and other human beings
6.: Indidivual and group responsibility
7.: Moral conflict and moral deficiency
8.: Alternative views of human nature
9.: Arguments
10.: Learning and teaching moral values
11.: Making contact and making decisions
12.: Working together
13.: A question of living
14.: Quality of life
15.: Health: the moral issues
16.: A question of dying
17.: A question of economics
18.: Moral aspects of research
19.: Quality in health care
20.: Codes of ethics
Bibliography
Index