Jessica Nihlén Fahlquist - Böcker

Risks, including health and technological, attract a lot of attention in modern societies, from individuals as well as policy-makers. Human beings have always had to deal with dangers, but contemporary societies conceptualise these dangers as risks, indicating that they are to some extent controllable and calculable. Conceiving of dangers in this way implies a need to analyse how we hold people responsible for risks and how we can and should take responsibility for risks. Moral Responsibility and Risk in Society combines philosophical discussion of different concepts and notions of responsibility with context-specific applications in the areas of health, technology and environment. The book consists of two parts addressing two crucial aspects of risks and responsibility: holding agents responsible, i.e. ascribing and distributing responsibility for risks, and taking responsibility for risk. More specifically, the book discusses the values of fairness and efficacy in responsibility distributions and makes distinctions between backward-looking and forward-looking responsibility as well as individual and collective responsibility. Additionally, it analyses what it means to take responsibility for technological risks, conceptualising this kind of responsibility as a virtue, and furthermore, explores the notion of responsible risk communication and the implications for adult-child relationships. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of environmental ethics, bioethics, public health ethics, engineering ethics, philosophy of risk and moral philosophy.

Risks, including health and technological, attract a lot of attention in modern societies, from individuals as well as policy-makers. Human beings have always had to deal with dangers, but contemporary societies conceptualise these dangers as risks, indicating that they are to some extent controllable and calculable. Conceiving of dangers in this way implies a need to analyse how we hold people responsible for risks and how we can and should take responsibility for risks. Moral Responsibility and Risk in Society combines philosophical discussion of different concepts and notions of responsibility with context-specific applications in the areas of health, technology and environment. The book consists of two parts addressing two crucial aspects of risks and responsibility: holding agents responsible, i.e. ascribing and distributing responsibility for risks, and taking responsibility for risk. More specifically, the book discusses the values of fairness and efficacy in responsibility distributions and makes distinctions between backward-looking and forward-looking responsibility as well as individual and collective responsibility. Additionally, it analyses what it means to take responsibility for technological risks, conceptualising this kind of responsibility as a virtue, and furthermore, explores the notion of responsible risk communication and the implications for adult-child relationships. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of environmental ethics, bioethics, public health ethics, engineering ethics, philosophy of risk and moral philosophy.

Detta är en etikbok med inriktning på barnmorskans huvudområden: reproduktiv, perinatal och sexuell hälsa. Boken är skriven med fokus på att ge läsaren goda förutsättningar att träna på att göra etiska reflektioner och argumentera kring dessa i komplexa situationer.Inom alla de områden som en barnmorska verkar uppstår frågor och etiska dilemman som barnmorskan måste ha verktyg för att kunna hantera. Boken beskriver vanligt förekommande etiska utmaningar genom fallbeskrivningar. Etik för barnmorskor ger en gemensam värdegrund som utgår från den yrkesetiska koden och kan användas av barnmorskor när de reflekterar över sitt professionella förhållningssätt både i mötet med kvinnan och hennes närstående och i samarbetet med andra yrkesgrupper.Bokens primära målgrupp är barnmorskestudenter men den kan också användas av barnmorskor, läkare, sjuksköterskor och andra som arbetar inom området. Boken utgör ett komplement till böcker inom reproduktiv och sexuell hälsa, obstetrik och gynekologi och förutsätter att läsaren har grundkunskaper inom de olika ämnesområdena.