Ashcroft / Dawson / Draper Principles of Health Care Ethics

2. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-119-18482-9
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 864 Seiten, E-Book

Edited by four leading members of the new generation of medical andhealthcare ethicists working in the UK, respected worldwide fortheir work in medical ethics, Principles of Health CareEthics, Second Edition is a standard resource forstudents, professionals, and academics wishing to understandcurrent and future issues in healthcare ethics.
With a distinguished international panel of contributors workingat the leading edge of academia, this volume presents acomprehensive guide to the field, with state of the artintroductions to the wide range of topics in modern healthcareethics, from consent to human rights, from utilitarianism tofeminism, from the doctor-patient relationship toxenotransplantation.
This volume is the Second Edition of the highly successful workedited by Professor Raanan Gillon, Emeritus Professor of MedicalEthics at Imperial College London and former editor of the Journalof Medical Ethics, the leading journal in this field.
Developments from the First Edition include: Thefocus on 'Four Principles Method' is relaxed to covermore different methods in health care ethics. More material on newmedical technologies is included, the coverage of issues on thedoctor/patient relationship is expanded, and material on ethics andpublic health is brought together into a new section.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ashcroft, Richard Edmund

Dawson, Angus

Draper, Heather

McMillan, John

Über Autor(innen)

Richard Edmund Ashcroft, Reader in Biomedical Ethics,Imperial College, London, UK.
Angus Dawson, Director, Centre for Professional Ethics,University of Keele, UK.
Heather Draper, Senior Lecturer in Healthcare Ethics,University of Birmingham, UK.
John McMillan, Senior Lecturer in Medical Ethics,Hull-York Medical School, UK.