Between Technology and Humanity
Subtitle: The Impact of Technology on Health Care Ethics
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Leuven University Press
Published: December 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9789058672513
Subjects: Impact of science & technology on society; Technology & Engineering; Medical / Nursing; Science/Mathematics; Ethics; Medical / Ethics; Social Aspects; Genetic screening; Medical ethics; Medical technology; Moral and ethical aspects; Nursing ethics
Description: This book highlights both the relation between technology and care, and the normative aspects of economic analyses in health care. A series of concrete examples from various clinical fields (prenatal diagnosis, genetic tests, digital imaging in psychiatry, tube feeding in care for the elderly, and palliative sedation) helps the authors to consider how to integrate these technologies in a care context aimed upon humaneness. Each topic is analysed by leading European clinicians and health care ethicists.