Healthy Respect Ethics in Health Care

The book offers an introduction to the moral concepts and value of health care. It is written by a moral philosopher, a doctor and a nurse and contains questions, cases and exercises which are suitable for medical, nursing and all students and commentators on health care. Moral dilemmas include consent, confidentiality, the giving or withholding of information, and the economics of health care. The issues of artificial reproduction, terminal care and the research and testing of drugs are addressed.

Knowledge, skills, and values
Scientific understanding and decision-making
Moral values
Autonomy and respect
Embryos, persons and other human beings
Indidivual and group responsibility
Moral conflict and moral deficiency
Alternative views of human nature
Arguments
Learning and teaching moral values
Making contact and making decisions
Working together
A question of living
Quality of life
Health: the moral issues
A question of dying
A question of economics
Moral aspects of research
Quality in health care
Codes of ethics
Bibliography
Index
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Healthy Respect Ethics in Health Care

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