Reconceiving medical ethics

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cowley, Christopher , 1967- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Continuum , c2012
Series:Continuum studies in philosophy
Subjects:
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