E-raamat: Principles of Health Care Ethics

Featuring contributions from 140 international academics, researchers, independent scholars, health care practitioners and administrators, this text is suitable for students, practitioners, educators, and researchers in medicine and health care, philosophy, medical law, sociology, and theology, as well as general readers concerned about health care ethics. The 110 chapters are organized into sections on methodology and perspectives, issues in health care practice, medicine in society, and research ethics and ethics of new technologies. The expanded second edition contains some 25 new chapters on such topics as virtue theory, liberalism and communitarianism, deliberative bioethics, hermeneutics, empirical approaches to bioethics, ethics in primary care, conflicts between practitioners' personal beliefs and their care of patients, responses to violent and abusive patients, ethical issues and disability, ethical aspects of "medical tourism", bioterrorism, disaster relief, care of refugees and asylum seekers, vaccination to prevent addiction, obligations of the pharmaceutical industry, and patient obligations. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Edited by four leading members of the new generation of medical and healthcare ethicists working in the UK, respected worldwide for their work in medical ethics, Principles of Health Care Ethics, Second Edition is a standard resource for students, professionals, and academics wishing to understand current and future issues in healthcare ethics.

With a distinguished international panel of contributors working at the leading edge of academia, this volume presents a comprehensive guide to the field, with state of the art introductions to the wide range of topics in modern healthcare ethics, from consent to human rights, from utilitarianism to feminism, from the doctor-patient relationship to xenotransplantation.

This volume is the Second Edition of the highly successful work edited by Professor Raanan Gillon, Emeritus Professor of Medical Ethics at Imperial College London and former editor of the Journal of Medical Ethics, the leading journal in this field.

Developments from the First Edition include:  The focus on ‘Four Principles Method’ is relaxed to cover more different methods in health care ethics. More material on new medical technologies is included, the coverage of issues on the doctor/patient relationship is expanded, and material on ethics and public health is brought together into a new section.