Medical Ethics: A Very Short Introduction

Dunn, Michael (Lecturer in Health and Social Care Ethics, The Ethox Centre, University of Oxford)-Hope, Tony (Emeritus Professor of Medical Ethics, University of Oxford)


Engels | 01-01-2019 | 168 pagina's

9780198815600

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The issue of medical ethics, from thorny moral questions such as euthanasia and the morality of killing to political questions such as the fair distribution of health care resources, is rarely out of today's media. This area of ethics covers a wide range of issues, from mental health to reproductive medicine, as well as including management issues such as resource allocation, and has proven to hold enduring interest for the general public as well as the medicalpractitioner. This Very Short Introduction provides an invaluable tool with which to think about the ethical values that lie at the heart of medicine.

This new edition explores the ethical reasoning we can use to approach medical ethics, introducing the most important 'tools' of ethical reasoning, and discussing how argument, thought experiments, and intuition can be combined in the consideration of medical ethics. Considering its practical application, Tony Hope and Michael Dunn explore how medical ethics supports health professionals through the growing use of ethics expertise in clinical settings. They also contemplate the increasinglyimportant place of medical ethics in the wider social context, particularly in this age of globalization, not only in healthcare practice, but also policy, discussions in the media, pressure group and activism settings, and in legal judgments.

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EAN :9780198815600
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Uitgever :Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V.
Publicatie datum :  01-01-2019
Uitvoering :Paperback / softback
Taal/Talen : Engels
Status : Bestelbaar
Aantal pagina's :168