Principles of Health Care Ethics, Second Edition

Principles of Health Care Ethics, Second Edition

Editor(s): Richard E. Ashcroft, Angus Dawson, Heather Draper, John R. McMillan

Published Online: 18 JUN 2007

Print ISBN: 9780470027134

Online ISBN: 9780470510544

DOI: 10.1002/9780470510544

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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.

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    3. Chapter 9

      Deontology (pages 65–71)

      David A. McNaughton and J. Piers Rawling

    4. Chapter 21

      Empirical Approaches to Health Care Ethics (pages 159–165)

      Jeremy Sugarman, Robert A. Pearlman and Holly A. Taylor

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    7. Chapter 85

      The Patient as Victim and Vector: Bioethics and the Challenge of Infectious Diseases (pages 623–630)

      Margaret P. Battin, Linda S. Carr-Lee, Leslie P. Francis, Jay A. Jacobson and Charles B. Smith

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    9. Chapter 95

      Informed Consent for Research (pages 703–710)

      James Flory, David Wendler and Ezekiel Emanuel

    10. Chapter 108

      Ethical Issues of Enhancement Technologies (pages 803–809)

      Ruud H. J. Ter Meulen, Lisbeth Nielsen and Laurens Landeweerd

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