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Reconceiving medical ethics /
This volume of original work comprises a modest challenge, sometimes direct, sometimes implicit, to the mainstream Anglo-American conception of the discipline of medical ethics. It does so not by trying to fill the gaps with exotic minority interest topics, but by re-examining some of the fundamenta...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Continuum,
©2012.
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| Colección: | Continuum studies in philosophy.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Title; Copy right page; Contents; Contributors ; Introduction ; Summaries of the Contributions ; Conclusion; Part One The Suffering Patient, the Suffering Body; Chapter 1 The Body: Property, Commodity or Gift?; Why the Body Matters ; My Body, My Property? ; Another Country
- Giving to Unnamed Strangers ; Conclusions; Chapter 2 Ricœur's Medical Ethics: The Encounter Between the Physician and the Patient ; Ricœur's 'Little Ethics' and the Case of Medicine ; Precepts and Norms in Medicine ; A More Singular and More Universal Attention.
- Oneself as Another Fragile Person and the Phenomenon of Translation Chapter 3 Bringing the Lived Body to Medical Ethics Education: Learning to See the Suffering ; Introduction ; Medicine as a Moral Practice ; The Skill Model to Virtues and Moral Perception ; Phenomenology of the Body ; Bodily Becoming: Virtuous ; Returning to Medicine ; Chapter 4 Old Age and Dependency; Introduction ; Is Autonomy the Central Issue? ; Autonomy and Dementia ; The Ethical Importance of Dependency ; Chapter 5 An Ethical Enquiry into the Concept of Palliative Care ; Introduction.
- Historical Overview of Hospice and Terminal Care The Origins of Modern Palliative Care ; Conceptual Tensions and Ambiguities in Palliative Care ; Critical Value Analysis and the Role of Hermeneutic Ethics ; Conclusion ; Chapter 6 Mental Illness and Medical Ethics: Insights from Heidegger and Values-Based Medicine; Introduction ; Service-User Perspectives ; Case Study: John's Story ; Insights from Heidegger ; John's Perspective ; The Psychiatrist's Perspective ; Values-Based Medicine ; Conclusions; Chapter 7 Depression, Physician-Assisted Suicide and the Dutch Chabot Case.
- Somatic Suffering vs. the Mental Suffering of Depression Depression and Suicide ; Part Three Autonomy and Autonomous Decision-Making; Chapter 8 Autonomy: Presumptively Precluding Consequentialism in Medical Ethics; Introduction; Autonomy ; Consequentialism ; Two Arguments ; Objections; Conclusions ; Chapter 9 Respecting Patients' Religious Beliefs ; Non-Overlapping Magisteria ; The Warfare of Science with Theology ; Is Religion Good for Your Health? ; Religious Diversity and Non-Discrimination ; Chapter 10 Luck and Risk in Medicine ; Luck; Luck and Responsibility ; Risk; Conclusion.
- 'You Have the BRCA Predisposition to Breast Cancer' Chapter 11 The Lay Patient and Genetic Illness ; The Lay Patient and their Genetic Illness ; What Next? ; Part Four The Law, the Profession and Ethics; Chapter 12 Law at the Limits at the Limits of Life?; Introduction ; At the Limits of Life: The Case of Charlotte Wyatt ; Judging Law from Within ; The Limits of Law at the Limits of Life? ; Beyond Law at the Limits of Life? ; Conclusion ; Chapter 13 Bringing the Profession into Disrepute
- an Ethical or Legal Issue?; Introduction; Professionalism in Healthcare.