Healthy respect : ethics in health care

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Title:

Author:

Downie, R. S. (Robert Silcock)

ISBN:

9780192624086

9780192624093

Personal Author:

Downie, R. S. (Robert Silcock)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Publication Information:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1994.

Physical Description:

xviii, 291 p. ; 23 cm.

Series:

Oxford medical publications

Series Title:

Oxford medical publications

Contents:

1. Knowledge, skills and values -- 2. Scientific understanding and decision-making -- 3. Moral values -- 4. Autonomy and respect -- 5. Embryos, persons, and other human beings -- 6. Individual and group responsibility -- 7. Moral conflict and moral deficiency -- 8. Alternative views of human nature -- 9. Arguments -- 10. Learning and teaching moral values -- 11. Making contact and making decisions -- 12. Working together -- 13. A question of living -- 14. Quality of life -- 15. Public health: the moral issues -- 16. A question of dying -- 17. A question of economics -- 18. Moral aspects of research -- 19. Quality in health care -- 20. Codes of ethics.

Subject Term:

Medical ethics.

Added Author:

Calman, Kenneth C. (Kenneth Charles)

Schrock, Ruth A. K.

Copies:

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Summary

Health care professionals are becoming increasingly aware of the moral dilemmas fundamental to their work. Healthy Respect introduces and analyses the moral concepts and values of health care for all those working in the medical profession, in order that they may examine their own moral and value judgements and appreciate how they might be influenced by them at work. The topics covered include: consent, confidentiality, giving or withholding information, the economics of healthcare, terminal care, resuscitation, testing of drugs Written in a clear, easily accessible style, this book presents many questions, cases and exercises throughout which will stimulate thought and discussion in the reader making it highly suited to all those actively engaged in health care.