Medical Responsibility
Subtitle: Paternalism, Informed Consent, and Euthanasia (Contemporary Topics in Biomedicine, Ethics, and Society)
Contributors: Michael S. Prichard (Editor)
Publisher: Humana Press
Published: June 1979
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9780896030077
Subjects: Medical Ethics; Moral and ethical aspects; Human experimentation in medic; Legal Reference / Law Profession; Ethics; Paternalism; General; Physician and patient
First sentence: In discussing the justification of paternalism, two features are essential: one is a clear account of paternalistic behavior, the other is a general theory about moral justification.