Ethics in Medicine

Medical ethics and the medical profession are inseparable, yet the formal teaching of medical ethics is a relatively new phenomenon. Furthermore, since the introduction of managed health care, with the physician becoming a 'health provider' and the patient a 'client', the whole c...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Zaidi, Shabih H. (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
Edición:1st ed. 2014.
Temas:
Medical sciences.
Ethics.
Bioethics.
Medicine-History.
Health Sciences.
Moral Philosophy and Applied Ethics.
History of Medicine.
Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part 1. Ethics through the ages: 1 . Early period
  • 2. Greek period - Sophists and Socrates  et al
  • 3. Arab period
  • 4. Bacon - Bertrand Russell
  • 5. Voltaire - Dawkins- McIntyre
  • Part 2. Metaphysics, religious- secular perspectives: 6. Analysis of secular and religious thought
  • Part 3. Cultural anthropology and medical ethics: 7. Normative principles, autonomy, beneficence, non maleficence and justice
  • 8. Universalism or Relativism
  • 9. Medical ethics in a pluralistic society
  • Part 4. Nomenclature and description: 10. Principles and sources of medical ethics
  • 11. Justice: a pillar of ethics. Distributive justice and international clinical trials
  • Part 5. The role of ethics in evolution of medicine: 12.Research ethics
  • 13. Human experimentation
  • 14. The scourge of drug trials
  • 15. Human embryonic stem cell research
  • 16. Stem cell in cultivation of sensory organs, curing deafness
  • 17. Cybrid. Is science going mad?
  • 18. Teaching medical ethics
  • Part 6. Reproductive health, ART, IVF, Abortion, Pregenetic diagnosis (PGD): 19. Assisted Reproductive Technologies
  • 20. IVF, Pre genetic diagnosis, termination of pregnancy
  • 21. Surrogacy
  • Part 7. Managed health care: 22. Rationing. Services within limited resources
  • 23. Futility of treatment. Euthanasia
  • 24. Therapeutic nihilism
  • Part 8. Quality of life issues: 25. Care of the elderly, and QALYS
  • 26. Hospices and palliative care
  • 27. Controversial pathways , passive euthanasia. Assisted life termination
  • 28. Assisted life prolongation and end of life issues
  • Part 9. Physicians' oaths: 29. Lessons drawn from Duae Makaram Al Akhlaq
  • 30. Hippocratic oath and contemporary faith based oaths.

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