Principles of Health Care Ethics

by Ashcroft, Richard Edmund; Dawson, Angus; Draper, Heather; McMillan, John

• ISBN13: 9780470027134
• ISBN10: 0470027134
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-07-23
• Publisher: WILEY

Summary

Edited by four leading members of the new generation of medical and healthcare ethicists working in the UK, respected worldwide for their work in medical ethics, Principles of Health Care Ethics, Second Edition is a standard resource for students, professionals, and academics wishing to understand current and future issues in healthcare ethics. With a distinguished international panel of contributors working at the leading edge of academia, this volume presents a comprehensive guide to the field, with state of the art introductions to the wide range of topics in modern healthcare ethics, from consent to human rights, from utilitarianism to feminism, from the doctor-patient relationship to xenotransplantation. This volume is the Second Edition of the highly successful work edited by Professor Raanan Gillon, Emeritus Professor of Medical Ethics at Imperial College London and former editor of the Journal of Medical Ethics, the leading journal in this field. Developments from the First Edition include: The focus on 'Four Principles Method' is relaxed to cover more different methods in health care ethics. More material on new medical technologies is included, the coverage of issues on the doctor/patient relationship is expanded, and material on ethics and public health is brought together into a new section.

Author Biography

Richard Edmund Ashcroft, Reader in Biomedical Ethics, Imperial College, London, UK.

Angus Dawson, Director, Centre for Professional Ethics, University of Keele, UK.

Heather Draper, Senior Lecturer in Healthcare Ethics, University of Birmingham, UK.

John McMillan, Senior Lecturer in Medical Ethics, Hull-York Medical School, UK.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors

Foreword

Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London

Preface

Methodology and Perspectives

Introduction

The ''Four Principles'' Approach to Health Care Ethics

Theories of Autonomy

Beneficence

Responsibilities for Poverty-Related Ill Health

Liberalism and Communitarianism

How Many Principles for Bioethics?

Casuistical Reasoning in Medical Ethics

Utilitarianism and Bioethics

Deontology

Kantian Ethics

Feminist Approaches to Health Care Ethics

Virtue Theory

Moral Relativism

Christian Approaches to Bioethics

Judaism and Medicine: Jewish Medical Ethics

The Search for Islamic Bioethics Principles

Buddhist Bioethics

South Asian Approaches to Health Care Ethics

The Specious Idea of an Asian Bioethics: Beyond Dichotomizing East and West

Narrative Ethics

Empirical Approaches to Health Care Ethics

Medical Sociology and the Redundancy of Empirical Ethics

The Use of Thought Experiments in Health Care Ethics

Deliberative Bioethics

Law, Ethics and Health Care

Medical Humanities: An Overview

Reflective Equilibrium as a Method in Health Care Ethics

Hermeneutic Ethics between Practice and Theory

Paternalism in Health Care and Health Policy

Need: An Instrumental View

Rights

Exploitation in Health Care

Competence to Consent

The Doctrine of Double Effect

Ordinary and Extraordinary Means

Acts and Omissions

Personhood and Moral Status

Commodification

Issues in Health Care Practice

Introduction

Heather Draper

Consent and Informed Consent

Treatment Decisions for Incapacitated Patients

Children''s Consent to Medical Treatment

Patients and Disclosure of Surgical Risk

Confidentiality

Truth-telling, Lying and the Doctor-Patient Relationship

Personal Beliefs and Patient Care

Conscience and Health Care Ethics

Care in Families

The Ethics of Primary Health Care

The Nurse-Patient Relationship: A ''Principles plus Care'' Account

Dual Responsibilities: Do They Raise Any Different Ethical Issues than "Normal" Therapeutic Relationships?

Violent and Abusive Patients: An Ethically Informed Response

The Moral Significance of the Human Foetus

Will We Need Abortion in Utopia?

Maternal-Foetal Conflict

Limits to Reproductive Liberty

Disability without Denial

Disability and Equality: Should Difference Be Welcomed?

Genetic Counselling

Ethics and Psychotherapy: An Issue of Trust

Mental Illness and Compulsory Treatment

Personality Disorders and Compulsory Detention

Labia Mea, Domine: Media, Morality and Eating Disorders

Intellectual Disability

Ethical Issues and Health Care for Older People

Organs and Tissues for Transplantation and Research

Living Donor Organ Transplantation

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