Healthy respect : ethics in health care
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Healthy respect : ethics in health care
(Oxford medical publications)
Oxford University Press, 1994
2nd ed
- : hbk
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [282]-285) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This introduction to the moral concepts and value of health care contains questions, cases and exercises which are suitable for medical and nursing students. Moral dilemmas include consent, confidentiality, the giving or withholding of information, and the economics of health care. The issues of artificial reproduction, terminal care and the research and testing of drugs are also addressed.
Table of Contents
- Knowledge, skills and values
- Scientific understanding and decision-making
- Moral values
- Autonomy and respect
- Embryos, persons and other human beings
- Individual and group responsibility
- Moral conflict and moral deficiency
- Alternative views of human nature
- Arguments
- Learning and teaching moral values
- Making contact and making decisions
- Working together
- A question of living
- Quality of life
- Health: the moral issues
- A question of dying
- A question of economics
- Moral aspects of research
- Quality in health care
- Codes of ethics.
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