Coercive Care

Ethics of Choice in Health & Medicine

Torbjorn Tannsjo (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

174 Seiten

1999
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-20849-9 (ISBN)

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Coercive Care asks probing and challenging questions regarding the use of coercion in health care and the social services. It argues for respect of the autonomy of the individual and refutes the system of paternalism.

Coercive Care asks probing and challenging questions regarding the use of coercion in health care and the social services. The book combines philosophical analysis with comparative studies of social policy and law in a large number of industrialized countries.

Torbjörn Tännsjö is Professor of Practical Philosophy at Gothenburg University, Sweden. He has published extensively in the fields of moral philosophy, political philosophy and bioethics.

1 Introduction 2 Somatic health care 3 Preventive health care 4 Infectious diseases 5 Mental illness 6 Forensic psychiatry 7 Foetal/maternal conflicts 8 Coercion in the social services 9 Conclusion

Erscheint lt. Verlag	10.6.1999
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	408 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Medizinethik
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-415-20849-1 / 0415208491
ISBN-13	978-0-415-20849-9 / 9780415208499
Zustand	Neuware