Life and Death

Philosophical Essays in Biomedical Ethics

AvDan W. Brock,Douglas MacLean

Häftad, Engelska, 1993

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Beskrivning

How should modern medicine's dramatic new powers to sustain life be employed? How should limited resources be used to extend and improve the quality of life? In this collection, Dan Brock, a distinguished philosopher and bioethicist and co-author of Deciding for Others (Cambridge, 1989), explores the moral issues raised by new ideals of shared decision making between physicians and patients. The book develops an ethical framework for decisions about life-sustaining treatment and euthanasia, and examines how these life and death decisions are transformed in health policy when the focus shifts from what is best for a patient to what is just for all patients. Professor Brock combines acute philosophical analysis with a deep understanding of the realities of clinical health policy. This is a volume for philosophers concerned with medical ethics, health policy professionals, physicians interested in bioethics, and undergraduate courses in biomedical ethics.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1993-01-29
Mått:151 x 227 x 30 mm
Vikt:674 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Public Policy
Antal sidor:452
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9780521428330

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Recensioner i media

"Dan Brock is one of the brightest scholars in the whole field of biomedical ethics, and this collection of essays serves as proof of why he deserves such praise. He is provocative even when writing about topics that seem mundane, and persuasive even when one ultimately disagrees with him. His writing style is crisp and generally quite clear. What Brock has to say about bioethics is always important....if one is interested in contemporary bioethics, reading Dan Brock's work is a must, whether one agrees with him or not." Academic Medicine

Innehållsförteckning

Part I. Physicians and Patients Making Treatment Decisions: 1. Informed consent; 2. The ideal of shared decision making between physicians and patients; 3. When competent patients make irrational choices (co-authored by Steven A. Wartman); Part II. Life-and-Death Decisions in the Clinic: 4. Moral rights and permissible killing; 5. Taking human life; 6. Death and dying; 7. Forgoing life-sustaining food and water: Is it killing?; 8. Voluntary active euthanasia; Part III. Life-and-Death Decisions in Health Policy: 9. The value of prolonging human life; 10. Quality of life measures in health care and medical ethics; 11. The problem of low benefit/high cost health care; 12. Justice and the severely demented elderly; 13. Justice, health care, and the elderly; 14. Truth or consequences: the role of philosophers in policy-making; Index.