Social Ethics and Policy – serie
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15 produkter
Experiments on Embryos
Häftad, 1991
667 kr
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Covering scientific, legal, ethical, historical, theological and public policy aspects of human embryo research, the cases for and against are put strongly and clearly. Scientific evidence is cogently presented by leading embryologists.
Medical Confidentiality and Legal Privilege
Inbunden, 1993
2512 kr
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First Published in 2004. Confidentiality in the era of AIDS is a 'buzz-word' in medical practice. But in the court room there is no confidentiality. A doctor can be forced to disclose her patient's confidences. This book asks: Why is this the case? Why are other professional confidential …
Protecting the Vulnerable
Autonomy and Consent in Health Care
Av Margaret Brazier, Mary Lobjoit
Inbunden, 1991
2586 kr
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The right of adults with sound mind to consent to treatment or risk their own health for the benefit of the community in a clinical trial is unequivocally recognised by the law. But what about those vulnerable by virtue of their age, nature or position in society? Experts from the fields of …
Limits of Medical Paternalism
Av Heta Häyry
Inbunden, 1991
2512 kr
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The Limits of Medical Paternalism defines and morally assesses paternalistic interventions, especially in the context of modern medicine and health care, particular emphasis is given to the analysis of the conceptual background of the paternalism issue. In this book an anti-paternalistic view is …
Liberal Utilitarianism and Applied Ethics
Av Matti Hayry
Inbunden, 1994
2512 kr
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Liberal Utilitarianism and Applied Ethics explores the foundations of early utilitarianism and, at the same time, the theoretical bases of social ethics and policy in modern Western welfare states. Matti Hayry sees the main reason for utilitarianism's growing disrepute among moral philosophers is …
Treatment Without Consent
Law, Psychiatry and the Treatment of Mentally Disordered People Since 1845
Av Phil Fennell
Inbunden, 1995
2586 kr
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Phil Fennell's tightly argued study traces the history of treatment of mental disorder in Britain over the last 150 years. He focuses specifically on treatment of mental disorder without consent within psychiatric practice, and on the legal position which has allowed it.Treatment Without Consent …
Need For Health Care
Av W.R. Sheaff
Inbunden, 1996
787 kr
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The rhetoric of 'needs' has been used to legitimate all major turns in UK health policy since 1936. This study identifies the ethical, policy and technical issues arising from the concept of needs. In the first part a theory of needs is developed, which takes into account both the philosophical …
Contemplating Suicide
The Language and Ethics of Self-Harm
Av Gavin J Fairbairn, Gavin Fairbairn
Inbunden, 1995
2512 kr
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Suicide is devastating. It is an assault on our ideas of what living is about. In Contemplating Suicide Gavin Fairbairn takes fresh look at suicidal self harm. His view is distinctive in not emphasising external facts: the presence or absence of a corpse, along with evidence that the person who has …
Contemplating Suicide
The Language and Ethics of Self-Harm
Av Gavin J Fairbairn, Gavin Fairbairn
Häftad, 1995
735 kr
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Suicide is devastating. It is an assault on our ideas of what living is about. In Contemplating Suicide Gavin Fairbairn takes fresh look at suicidal self harm. His view is distinctive in not emphasising external facts: the presence or absence of a corpse, along with evidence that the person who has …
Medical Confidentiality and Legal Privilege
Häftad, 2014
851 kr
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First Published in 2004. Confidentiality in the era of AIDS is a 'buzz-word' in medical practice. But in the court room there is no confidentiality. A doctor can be forced to disclose her patient's confidences. This book asks: Why is this the case? Why are other professional confidential …
Protecting the Vulnerable
Autonomy and Consent in Health Care
Av Margaret Brazier, Mary Lobjoit
Häftad, 2014
877 kr
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The right of adults with sound mind to consent to treatment or risk their own health for the benefit of the community in a clinical trial is unequivocally recognised by the law. But what about those vulnerable by virtue of their age, nature or position in society? Experts from the fields of …
Limits of Medical Paternalism
Av Heta Häyry
Häftad, 2014
866 kr
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The Limits of Medical Paternalism defines and morally assesses paternalistic interventions, especially in the context of modern medicine and health care, particular emphasis is given to the analysis of the conceptual background of the paternalism issue. In this book an anti-paternalistic view is …
Experiments on Embryos
Inbunden, 2017
3065 kr
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Covering scientific, legal, ethical, historical, theological and public policy aspects of human embryo research, the cases for and against are put strongly and clearly. Scientific evidence is cogently presented by leading embryologists.
Liberal Utilitarianism and Applied Ethics
Av Matti Hayry
Häftad, 2015
866 kr
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Liberal Utilitarianism and Applied Ethics explores the foundations of early utilitarianism and, at the same time, the theoretical bases of social ethics and policy in modern Western welfare states. Matti Hayry sees the main reason for utilitarianism's growing disrepute among moral philosophers is …
Treatment Without Consent
Law, Psychiatry and the Treatment of Mentally Disordered People Since 1845
Av Phil Fennell
Häftad, 2015
952 kr
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Phil Fennell's tightly argued study traces the history of treatment of mental disorder in Britain over the last 150 years. He focuses specifically on treatment of mental disorder without consent within psychiatric practice, and on the legal position which has allowed it.Treatment Without Consent …
