Healthy Respect - R. S. Downie, K. C. Calman

Healthy Respect

Ethics in Health Care
Buch | Softcover
310 Seiten
1994 | 2nd Revised edition
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-262408-6 (ISBN)
45,50 inkl. MwSt
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.
Health care professionals are becoming increasingly aware of the moral dilemmas fundamental to their work. Healthy Respect introduces and analyses the moral concepts and values of health care for all those working in the medical profession, in order that they may examine their own moral and value judgements and appreciate how they might be influenced by them at work. The topics covered include:

consent, confidentiality, giving or withholding information, the economics of healthcare, terminal care, resuscitation, testing of drugs

Written in a clear, easily accessible style, this book presents many questions, cases and exercises throughout which will stimulate thought and discussion in the reader making it highly suited to all those actively engaged in health care.

Preface to second edition ; 1. Knowledge, skills, and values ; 2. Scientific understanding and decision-making ; 3. Moral values ; 4. Autonomy and respect ; 5. Embryos, persons and other human beings ; 6. Indidivual and group responsibility ; 7. Moral conflict and moral deficiency ; 8. Alternative views of human nature ; 9. Arguments ; 10. Learning and teaching moral values ; 11. Making contact and making decisions ; 12. Working together ; 13. A question of living ; 14. Quality of life ; 15. Health: the moral issues ; 16. A question of dying ; 17. A question of economics ; 18. Moral aspects of research ; 19. Quality in health care ; 20. Codes of ethics ; Bibliography ; Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag 12.5.1994
Co-Autor Ruth A. K. Schröck
Vorwort Sir Malcolm Macnaughton
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 138 x 216 mm
Gewicht 415 g
Themenwelt Medizin / Pharmazie Medizinische Fachgebiete Medizinethik
Studium Querschnittsbereiche Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
ISBN-10 0-19-262408-3 / 0192624083
ISBN-13 978-0-19-262408-6 / 9780192624086
Zustand Neuware
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