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Ethics and community in the health care professions / / edited by Michael Parker



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Titolo: Ethics and community in the health care professions / / edited by Michael Parker Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1999
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (x, 207 pages)
Disciplina: 174.2
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Soggetto topico: Medical ethics - Social aspects
Communitarianism - Health aspects
Medical personnel - Moral and ethical aspects
Professional ethics
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Persona (resp. second.): ParkerMichael <1958->
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 188-200) and index.
Nota di contenuto: Cover; ETHICS AND COMMUNITY IN THE HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONS; Copyright; CONTENTS; CONTRIBUTORS; SERIES EDITOR'S PREFACE; INTRODUCTION: Health care ethics: liberty, community or participation?; 1 THE HEALTH SERVICE AS CIVIL ASSOCIATION; 2 ALL YOU NEED IS HEALTH: Liberal and communitarian views on the allocation of health care resources; 3 RETURN TO COMMUNITY: The ethics of exclusion and inclusion; 4 COMMUNITY DISINTEGRATION OR MORAL PANIC?: Young people and family care; 5 CONTRACTING CARE IN THE COMMUNITY
6 VIRTUAL GENETIC COUNSELLING: A European perspective on the role of information technology in genetic counselling7 CULTURAL DIVERSITY AND THE LIMITS OF TOLERANCE; 8 ETHICS, COMMUNITY AND THE ELDERLY: Health care decision-making for incompetent elderly patients; 9 POWER, LIES AND INJUSTICE: The exclusion of service users' voices; 10 ETHICAL CODES: The protection of patients or practitioners?; REFERENCES; INDEX
Sommario/riassunto: The concept of community is increasingly the focus of political argument in Britain, the United States and elsewhere around the world. The sense people have of belonging to coummunities provides a powerful motivation which continues to affecct the political and social face of the world. Recently, debate about the relationship between individuals and their communities has become central to the making of both, American and European social policy. In the United Kingdom this is especially apparent in the area of health care, where ideas of community have informed recent legislation concerning com
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Formato: Materiale a stampa
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Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
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Serie: Professional ethics.