Reconceiving medical ethics - Cowley, Christopher , 1967- (New York : Continuum, 2012)
1. The body : property, commodity or gift? -- 2. Ric?ur's medical ethics : the encounter between the physician and the patient -- 3. Bringing the lived body to medical ethics educations : learning to see the suffering other -- 4. Old age and dependency -- 5. An ethical enquiry into the concept of palliative care -- 6. Mental illness and medical ethics : insights from heidegger and values-based medicine -- 7. Depression, physician-assisted suicide and the Dutch Chabot Case -- 8. Autonomy : presumptively precluding consequentialism in medical ethics -- 9. Respecting patients' religious beliefs -- 10. Luck and risk in medicine -- 11. The lay patient and genetic illness -- 12. Law at the limits at the limits of life? -- 13. Bringing the profession into disrepute - an ethical or legal issue? -- 14. Conscientious objection in medicine -- 15. Clinical and ethical judgement
Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-259) and index
Keywords: Medical ethics