Reconceiving medical ethics
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Continuum ,
c2012
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| Series: | Continuum studies in philosophy
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Table of Contents:
- 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