Medical ethics [[electronic resource]] / edited by Michael Boylan

• Pubblicazione: Chichester, West Sussex, U.K., : Wiley-Blackwell, c2014
• Edizione: 2nd ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (404 p.)
• Disciplina: 174/.2
• Soggetto topico: Medical ethics
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: BoylanMichael <1952->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Medical Ethics; Copyright; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Preface to the Second Edition; Source Credits; 1 Ethical Reasoning; A Prudential Model of Decision-Making; Possible Ethical Additions to the Prudential Model; How to Construct Your Own Model; How Do Ethics Make a Difference in Decision-Making?; Case 1: Social/Political Ethics: The Trolley Problem; Analysis; Case 2: An Admission to the Emergency Room; Analysis; Conclusion; Notes; 2 Health: The Aim of Medicine; Ethics, Infertility, and Public Health: Balancing Public Good and Private Choice1; Health, Disease, and Infertility ; Infertility as a Disvalued Dysfunction (Disease)Conclusion; Notes and References; Too Old for the Good of Health?1; Introduction: Goodness and Health; Health-Neutral or Normative?; Definitions of Health; Oldness; When Is Old Age?; Health in Old Age; Goodness of Health for Old Age; Conclusion; Notes and References; Health as Self-Fulfillment1; Functional Approaches to Health; Public Health Approach; Subjectivist Approaches; Conclusion; Notes; References; Evaluating a Case Study: Developing a Practical Ethical Viewpoint; Macro and Micro Cases; Situation One; Situation Two; Notes ; 3 Physician, Nurse, and Patient: The Practice of MedicineThe Oath1; A. Paternalism and Autonomy; B. Privacy and Confidentiality; C. Informed Consent; D. Gender, Culture, and Race; Notes; A. Paternalism and Autonomy: Medical Paternalism and Patient Autonomy; Introduction; Preliminary Distinctions; The Birth of Medical Paternalism; The Invention of Patient Autonomy; The Four Models of the Physician-Patient Relationship; Vital Issues Concerning Medical Paternalism; Conclusions; Notes; References ; Rational Non-Interventional Paternalism: Why Doctors Ought to Make Judgments of What Is Best for Their PatientsTwo Reasons; 'Framing Effect'; Moral Stakes; Shared Decision-Making; References; B. Privacy and Confidentiality: Medical Privacy in the Age of Genomics; Medical Privacy; Genomics: A Revolution in Revelations; DNA, Genes, and Information About Persons; What May Once Have Been a Duty Must Now Become a Right; The Right to Your Genes; Notes; Ethical Issues Experienced by HIV-Infected African-American Women; Introduction; Method; Findings; Discussion; Conclusion; References ; C. Informed Consent: Should Informed Consent Be Based on Rational Beliefs?I. Introduction; II . Rationality and Autonomy; III . An Example of Irrational Belief: Jehovah's Witnesses and Blood; IV . Three Examples of Holding a False Belief; V. Summary and Implications; Rational Deliberation; Duties as Educators; Acknowledgement; Notes and References; Cultural Diversity and Informed Consent; Case; Discussion; Analysis; Recommendations; D. Gender, Culture, and Race On Treatment of Myopia: Feminist Standpoint Theory and Bioethics; Some Flaws in Contemporary Health Care and Bioethics ; Feminist Standpoint and Attention to Relationships and Context
• Sommario/riassunto: The second edition of Medical Ethics deals accessibly with a broad range of significant issues in bioethics, and presents the reader with the latest developments. This new edition has been greatly revised and updated, with half of the sections written specifically for this new volume. An accessible introduction for beginners, offering a combination of important established essays and new essays commissioned especially for this volumeGreatly revised - half of the selections are new to this edition, including two essays on genetic enhancement and a section on gender
• Titolo autorizzato: Medical ethics
• ISBN: 1-118-65790-X; 1-118-65797-7; 1-118-65795-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910463187503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II