Principles of health care ethics /
Ashcroft, Richard E.
Chichester : John Wiley & Sons,
c2007.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The 'four principles' approach to health care ethics -- Theories of autonomy -- Beneficence -- Responsibilities for poverty-related ill health -- Liberalism and communitarianism -- How many principles for bioethics? -- Casuistical reasoning in medical ethics -- Utilitarianism and bioethics -- Deontology -- Kantian ethics -- Feminist approaches to health care ethics -- Virtue theory -- Moral relativism -- Christian approaches to bioethics -- Judaism and medicine: Jewish medical ethics -- The search for Islamic bioethics principles -- Buddhist bioethics -- South Asian approaches to health care ethics -- The specious idea of an Asian bioethics: beyond dichotomizing east and west -- Narrative ethics -- Empirical appoaches to health care ethics -- Medical sociology and the redundancy of empirical ethics -- The use of thought experiments in health care ethics -- Deliberative bioethics -- Law, ethics and health care -- Medical humanities: an overview -- Reflective equilibrium as a method in health care ethics -- Hermeneutic ethics between practice and theory -- Paternalism in health care and health policy -- Need: an instrumental view -- Rights -- Exploitation in health care -- Competence to consent -- The doctrine of double effect -- Ordinary and extraordinary means -- Acts and omissions -- Personhood and moral status -- Commodification -- Consent and informed consent -- Treatment decisions for incapacitated patients -- Children's consent to medical treatment -- Patients and disclosure of surgical risk -- Confidentiality -- Truth telling, lying and the doctor-patient relationship -- Personal beliefs and patient care -- Conscience and health care ethics -- Care in families -- The ethics of primary health care -- The nurse-patient relationship: a 'principles plus care' account -- Dual responsibilities: do they raise any different ethical issues from 'normal' therapeutic relationships? -- Violent and abusive patients: an ethically informed response -- The moral significance of the human foetus -- Will we need abortion in Utopia? -- Maternal-foetal conflict -- Limits to reproductive liberty --
Disability without denial -- Disability and equity: should difference be welcomed? -- Genetic counselling -- Ethics and psychotherapy: an issue of trust -- Mental illness and compulsory treatment -- Personality disorders and compulsory detention -- Labia mea, domine: media, morality and eating disorders -- Intellectual disability -- Ethical issues and health care for older people -- Organs and tissues for transplantation and research -- Living donor organ transplantation -- Euthanasia and principled health care ethics: from conflict to compromise? -- Understanding and misunderstanding death -- Ethics without boundaries: medical tourism -- Ethics of performance enhancement in sport: drugs and gene doping -- Training good professionals: ethics and health care education -- Ethics consultation and ethics committees -- The concepts of health and illness -- Community in public health ethics -- Health promotion, society and health care ethics -- Preventing disease -- Quantitative methods for priority-setting in health: ethical issues -- Economics, political philosophy and ethics: the role of public preferences in health care decision-making -- Decision analysis: the ethical approach to most health decision making -- Health inequities and the social determinants of health -- Organizational ethics in health care -- Ethical issues in epidemiology -- Screening: ethical aspects -- Vaccination ethics -- The patient as victim and vector: bioethics and the challenge of infectious diseases -- Bioterrorism, society and health care ethics -- Drug addiction, society and ethics -- Smoking: is acceptance of the risks fully voluntary? Doctors and human rights -- Duties to refugees and asylum seekers in host countries' medical systems -- Medical aid in disaster relief -- The ethics and governance of medical research -- On the ethics of animal research -- The ethical requirement for systematic reviews for randomized trials -- Informed consent for research -- Evaluating benefits and harms in clinical research -- Patients' obligations? -- Standard of care owed to participants in clinical trials: different standards in different countries? -- Justice and priority setting in international health care research -- Obligations of the pharmaceutical industry -- Ethics and medical publishing -- Human reproductive cloning -- Obtaining human eggs for stem cell research: ethical issues -- The ethics of xenotransplantation -- Pharmacogenomics -- Ethical issues in human gene transfer: a historical overview -- The ethics of ageing, immortality and genetics -- Ethical issues of enhancement technologies -- Psychosurgery and neuroimplantation: changing what is deep within a person -- Resisting addiction: novel application of vaccines..
Medical ethics.