Who Decides?: Conflicts of Rights in Health Care - Rilegato

Bell, Nora K.

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ISBN 10: 0896030342 ISBN 13: 9780896030343

Casa editrice: Springer Nature B.V., 1982

Riassunto

Many of the demands being voiced for a "humanizing" of health care center on the public's concern that they have some say In determining what happens to the individual in health care institutions.

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Contenuti

1 Introduction.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Patients and Their Healers: Historical Studies in Health Care.- 2 Patients and Their Healers: Historical Studies in Health Care.- I: Limits of Professional Autonomy.- 3 Goals of Medical Care: A Reappraisal.- 4 Establishing Limits to Professional Autonomy: Whose Responsibility? A Nursing Perspective.- 5 Limits to Responsibility and Decision-Making: Some Comments.- 6 Can Physicians Mind Their Own Business and Still Practice Medicine?.- 7 Allocating Autonomy: Can Patients and Practitioners Share?.- II. Refusing/Withdrawing from Treatment.- 8 The Right to Refuse Treatment: A Critique.- 9 Refusal of Psychiatric Treatment: Autonomy, Competence, and Paternalism.- 10 Consent and Competence: A Commentary on Szasz and Macklin.- III. Death and Dying: electing Heroic Measures.- 11 What is Heroic?.- 12 The Moral Justification for Withholding Heroic Procedures.- 13 Response to Bryan and Beauchamp.- IV. Advancing Reproductive Technology.- 14 Ethics and Reproductive Biology.- 15 Fathers Anonymous: Beyond the Best Interests of the Sperm Donor.- 16 Law and Ethics: Three Persistent Myths.- Further Readings.

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Book by Bell Nora K

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Springer Nature B.V.
• Data di pubblicazione: 1982
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0896030342
• ISBN 13: 9780896030343
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 236
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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