Rethinking Health Care Ethics
Title | Rethinking Health Care Ethics PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen Scher |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 169 |
Release | 2018-08-02 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9811308306 |
The goal of this open access book is to develop an approach to clinical health care ethics that is more accessible to, and usable by, health professionals than the now-dominant approaches that focus, for example, on the application of ethical principles. The book elaborates the view that health professionals have the emotional and intellectual resources to discuss and address ethical issues in clinical health care without needing to rely on the expertise of bioethicists. The early chapters review the history of bioethics and explain how academics from outside health care came to dominate the field of health care ethics, both in professional schools and in clinical health care. The middle chapters elaborate a series of concepts, drawn from philosophy and the social sciences, that set the stage for developing a framework that builds upon the individual moral experience of health professionals, that explains the discontinuities between the demands of bioethics and the experience and perceptions of health professionals, and that enables the articulation of a full theory of clinical ethics with clinicians themselves as the foundation. Against that background, the first of three chapters on professional education presents a general framework for teaching clinical ethics; the second discusses how to integrate ethics into formal health care curricula; and the third addresses the opportunities for teaching available in clinical settings. The final chapter, "Empowering Clinicians", brings together the various dimensions of the argument and anticipates potential questions about the framework developed in earlier chapters.
Rethinking Health Care Ethics
Title | Rethinking Health Care Ethics PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen Scher |
Publisher | Palgrave Pivot |
Pages | 169 |
Release | 2018-08-20 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9789811308291 |
The goal of this open access book is to develop an approach to clinical health care ethics that is more accessible to, and usable by, health professionals than the now-dominant approaches that focus, for example, on the application of ethical principles. The book elaborates the view that health professionals have the emotional and intellectual resources to discuss and address ethical issues in clinical health care without needing to rely on the expertise of bioethicists. The early chapters review the history of bioethics and explain how academics from outside health care came to dominate the field of health care ethics, both in professional schools and in clinical health care. The middle chapters elaborate a series of concepts, drawn from philosophy and the social sciences, that set the stage for developing a framework that builds upon the individual moral experience of health professionals, that explains the discontinuities between the demands of bioethics and the experience and perceptions of health professionals, and that enables the articulation of a full theory of clinical ethics with clinicians themselves as the foundation. Against that background, the first of three chapters on professional education presents a general framework for teaching clinical ethics; the second discusses how to integrate ethics into formal health care curricula; and the third addresses the opportunities for teaching available in clinical settings. The final chapter, "Empowering Clinicians", brings together the various dimensions of the argument and anticipates potential questions about the framework developed in earlier chapters.
An Ethic for Health Promotion
Title | An Ethic for Health Promotion PDF eBook |
Author | David R. Buchanan |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 229 |
Release | 2000-01-20 |
Genre | Health & Fitness |
ISBN | 019513057X |
What is the goal of public health promotion today? If the leading causes of mortality nowadays are primarily attributable to lifestyle behaviors, is the purpose of research to develop the power to change those behaviors, in the same way that science has been able to control infectious diseases? Or is the quest for effective behavior modification techniques antithetical to the idea of promoting well-being defined in terms of individual autonomy, dignity, and integrity. An Ethic for Health Promotion explores these questions.
Rethinking Life and Death
Title | Rethinking Life and Death PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Singer |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 268 |
Release | 1996-04-15 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9780312144012 |
In a reassessment of the meaning of life and death, a noted philosopher offers a new definition for life that contrasts a world dependent on biological maintenance with one controlled by state-of-the-art medical technology.
Rethinking the Ethics of Clinical Research
Title | Rethinking the Ethics of Clinical Research PDF eBook |
Author | Alan Wertheimer |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 369 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Medical |
ISBN | 0199743517 |
Introduction -- Facing up to paternalism in research ethics -- Preface to a theory of consent transactions in research : beyond valid consent -- Should we worry about money? -- Exploitation in clinical research -- The interaction principle.
Health Care and the Ethics of Encounter
Title | Health Care and the Ethics of Encounter PDF eBook |
Author | Laurie Zoloth |
Publisher | UNC Press Books |
Pages | 336 |
Release | 2005-10-12 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0807876208 |
The last several years have seen a sharpening of debate in the United States regarding the problem of steadily increasing medical expenditures, as well as inflation in health care costs, a scarcity of health care resources, and a lack of access for a growing number of people in the national health care system. Some observers suggest that we in fact face two crises: the crisis of scarce resources and the crisis of inadequate language in the discourse of ethics for framing a response. Laurie Zoloth offers a bold claim: to renew our chances of achieving social justice, she argues, we must turn to the Jewish tradition. That tradition envisions an ethics of conversational encounter that is deeply social and profoundly public, as well as offering resources for recovering a language of community that addresses the issues raised by the health care allocation debate. Constructing her argument around a careful analysis of selected classic and postmodern Jewish texts and a thoughtful examination of the Oregon health care reform plan, Zoloth encourages a radical rethinking of what has become familiar ground in debates on social justice.
Rethinking Autonomy
Title | Rethinking Autonomy PDF eBook |
Author | John W. Traphagan |
Publisher | SUNY Press |
Pages | 178 |
Release | 2013-01-01 |
Genre | Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | 1438445539 |
Provides a critique of and alternative to the dominant paradigm used in biomedical ethics by exploring the Japanese concept of autonomy.