Dan W. Brock

Life and Death

Philosophical Essays in Biomedical Ethics

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Dan Brock explores the moral issues raised by new ideals of shared decision making between physicians and patients.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 452
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 1993
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 729g
• ISBN-13: 9780521428330
• ISBN-10: 0521428335
• Artikelnr.: 21474625

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Physicians and Patients Making Treatment Decisions: 1. Informed consent
2. The ideal of shared decision making between physicians and patients
3. When competent patients make irrational choices (co-authored by Steven A. Wartman)
Part II. Life-and-Death Decisions in the Clinic: 4. Moral rights and permissible killing
5. Taking human life
6. Death and dying
7. Forgoing life-sustaining food and water: Is it killing?
8. Voluntary active euthanasia
Part III. Life-and-Death Decisions in Health Policy: 9. The value of prolonging human life
10. Quality of life measures in health care and medical ethics
11. The problem of low benefit/high cost health care
12. Justice and the severely demented elderly
13. Justice, health care, and the elderly
14. Truth or consequences: the role of philosophers in policy-making
Index.