Coercive Care

Ethics of Choice in Health & Medicine

Torbjorn Tannsjo (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

176 Seiten

2015
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-87383-4 (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	9.6.2015
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	272 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	1-138-87383-7 / 1138873837
ISBN-13	978-1-138-87383-4 / 9781138873834
Zustand	Neuware