Ethics in medicine / Jennifer Jackson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jackson, Jennifer C., 1939-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical ethics.

Ethics, Medical.

Philosophy.

Medical Subjects:

Ethics, Medical.

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

vi, 232 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity, 2006.

Summary:

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 elegantly written 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 faced by the medical world.

Contents:

1 Virtues and Vices 9

2 Justice - A Problematic Virtue? 16

3 Benevolence - A Problematic Virtue? 27

4 Benevolence - The Only Virtue? 32

5 The Dictates of Conscience 42

6 The Duties to Obtain Consent, Give Information and Respect Autonomy 56

7 'First, Do No Harm' 74

8 Duties to Give, and Rights to Get, Health Care 92

9 Distributive Justice in Health Care 102

10 Abortion 116

11 Suicide, Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia 133

12 Killing and Letting Die 149

13 Patients' Deaths and Doctors' Decisions 162

14 Moral Issues in Reproductive Medicine 170

15 The Old and the New 188.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [221]-227) and index.

ISBN:

0745625681

074562569X

OCLC:

56454624