Ethics in medicine
"How, in the world of modern medicine, should we resolve the ethically controversial and troubling issues relating to health care? Should we make a clean sweep, getting rid of the Hippocratic ethic, or such vestiges of it as remain? If we make a clean sweep have we something better to put in its stead?" "In this book, Jennifer Jackson seeks to bring philosophical ethics to bear on these questions. She draws especially on the insights of Aristotle and succeeding philosophers regarding the role of virtues and vices in how people shape their lives. Their insights are shown to clarify central issues concerning health practice and policy that continue to be contentious and unresolved." "The book will be invaluable to upper-level students of sociology and health care, as well as those who are interested in the ethical uncertainties currently raced by the medical world."--Jacket
Trade
vi, 232 pages ; 24 cm
9780745625683, 9780745625690, 0745625681, 074562569X
1058006290
1. Virtues and vices
2. Justice
a problematic virtue?
3. Benevolence
a problematic virtue?
4. Benevolence
the only virtue?
5. The dictates of conscience
6. The duties to obtain consent, give imformation and respect autonomy
7. "First, do no harm"
8. Duties to give, and rights to get, health care
9. Distributive justice in health care
10. Abortion
11. Suicide, assisted suicide and euthanasia
12. Killing and letting die
13. Patients' deaths and doctors' decisions
14. Moral issues in reproductive medicine
15. The old and the new
Includes index