Who Owns Our Bodies? - John Spiers, Ray Robinson

Who Owns Our Bodies?

Making Moral Choices in Health Care
Buch | Softcover
112 Seiten
1997
Radcliffe Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-85775-210-6 (ISBN)
39,85 inkl. MwSt
This book explores the controversial dilemmas which meet at the intersection of medicine philosphy and law - questions concerning killing and not killing which are faced daily in health care. They embrace euthanasia abortion the care of the elderly and the demented the care of the mentally ill children and those in a persistent vegative state. Who Owns our Bodies? identifies a crisis both in ethics and in empowerment as people face often neccessarily wretched choices. It seeks a framework of guidance for practical decision-making and focuses on two key issues. First who decides on an individual's quality of life and thus on their health care treatments? Second how can patients be empowered with a structure to enable choice self-realization self-reflection and self-responsibility? John Spiers with characteristic clarity and verve offers a fundamental choice between health care experienced as hierarchy and control and the alternative of choice and self-responsibilty. He argues that health care must rely on patients deciding how much power they have not on professionals deciding how much to grant them.

Ray Robinson, John Spiers

Introduction. Foundations. Purpose. Citizens. Staring. Notes. Who Owns our Bodies?. 'The truth's superb surprise'. Where is my country? The big sky. 'A' for autonomy? The hammers of the piano: empowerment. Myth and mystique: webs we make. Empowerment, and the punctuation mark. 'If I am not for me...'. References. Afterword. Definitions. Balance. Notes.

Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 305 x 152 mm
Gewicht 181 g
Themenwelt Medizin / Pharmazie Medizinische Fachgebiete Medizinethik
Studium Querschnittsbereiche Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
Recht / Steuern Allgemeines / Lexika
Recht / Steuern EU / Internationales Recht
ISBN-10 1-85775-210-4 / 1857752104
ISBN-13 978-1-85775-210-6 / 9781857752106
Zustand Neuware
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