Principles of Health Care Ethics

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.

Auteur
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.

Texte du rabat
"This is a book of byzantine proportions: a treasure trove for anyone with even the slightest initial interest in biomedical ethics. Indeed this book demonstrates that biomedical ethics is a microcosm of culture broadly conceived. Principles of Health Care Ethics is unique. There is no other source-book that provides such diversity within the field. Here you can explore Eastern as well as Western approaches; examine the value of scientific studies in ethics, or of bizarre thought experiments. You can read about specific issues arising in clinical care, or gaze into a future when drugs might be widely used not only to treat disease but also to enhance health and abilities. There are twenty chapters on political and social issues and almost as many on the ethics of medical research and new technologies.

The first edition of Principles of Health Care Ethics was a constant companion for me, although one that was rather too frequently 'borrowed'. This second edition is even more exciting. A book of reference; and also a book to explore."
Tony Hope, Professor of Medical Ethics, University of Oxford

The topics discussed in this book are relevant to everyone working in, or associated with, medicine and health care, whether student, practitioner, teacher of researcher, but its appeal will also extend to those in the fields of philosophy, medical law, sociology and theology, and the general reader concerned about the many moral problems that arise in medical practice.

Résumé
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.

Contenu

List of Contributors xi

Foreword: Raanan E. Gillon xix

Foreword: Tony Hope xxi

Preface xxiii

PART I: METHODOLOGY AND PERSPECTIVES
Introduction by John R. McMillan 1

1 The 'Four Principles' Approach to Health Care Ethics 3
Tom L. Beauchamp

2 Theories of Autonomy 11
Natalie Stoljar

3 Benefi cence 19
Garrett Cullity

4 Responsibilities for Poverty-Related Ill Health 27
Thomas Pogge

5 Liberalism and Communitarianism 35
Colin Tyler

6 How Many Principles for Bioethics? 43
Robert M. Veatch

7 Casuistical Reasoning in Medical Ethics 51
Albert R. Jonsen

8 Utilitarianism and Bioethics 57
Matti Häyry

9 Deontology 65
David A. McNaughton and J. Piers Rawling

10 Kantian Ethics 73
Onora O'Neill

11 Feminist Approaches to Health Care Ethics 79
Susan Sherwin

12 Virtue Theory 87
Justin Oakley

13 Moral Relativism 93
Mark Sheehan

14 Christian Approaches to Bioethics 99
Heather Widdows

15 Judaism and Medicine: Jewish Medical Ethics 109
Fred Rosner

16 The Search for Islamic Bioethics Principles 117
Abdulaziz Sachedina

17 Buddhist Bioethics 127
James Hughes

18 South Asian Approaches to Health Care Ethics 135
Harold Coward

19 The Specious Idea of an Asian Bioethics: Beyond Dichotomizing East and West 143
Jing-Bao Nie

20 Narrative Ethics 151
Howard Brody

21 Empirical Approaches to Health Care Ethics 159
Jeremy Sugarman, Robert A. Pearlman, Holly A. Taylor

22 Medical Sociology and the Redundancy of Empirical Ethics 167
Adam Hedgecoe

23 The Use of Thought Experiments in Health Care Ethics 177
Adrian Walsh

24 Deliberative Bioethics 185
Michael Parker

25 Law, Ethics and Health Care 193
Sheila A.M. McLean

26 Medical Humanities: An Overview 199
Martyn Evans

27 Reflective Equilibrium as a Method in Health Care Ethics 207
Theo van Willigenburg

28 Hermeneutic Ethics between Practice and Theory 215
Guy A.M. Widdershoven, Tineke A. Abma

29 Paternalism in Health Care and Health Policy 223
James F. Childress

30 Need: An Instrumental View 231
Anthony J. Culyer

31 Rights 239
James G.S. Wilson

32 Exploitation in Health Care 247
Alan Wertheimer

33 Competence to Consent 255
Monique F. Jonas

34 The Doctrine of Double Effect 263
Suzanne Uniacke

35 Ordinary and Extraordinary Means 269
Stephen D. John

36 Acts and Omissions 273
Tuija Takala

37 Personhood and Moral Status 277
Ainsley J. Newson

38 Commodifi cation 285
Stephen Wilkinson

PART II: ISSUES IN HEALTH CARE PRACTICE
Introduction by Heather Draper 293

39 Consent and Informed Consent 297
Neil C. Manson

40 Treatment Decisions for Incapacitated Patients 305
Rebecca S. Dresser

41 Children's Consent to Medical Treatment 311
David W. Archard 42 Patients and Disclosure of Surgical Risk 319
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