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The limits of medical paternalism / Heta Hayry.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gylling, Heta Aleksandra.
- Series:
- Social ethics and policy series.
- Social ethics and policy series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medical personnel and patient.
- Paternalism.
- Medical personnel--Psychology.
- Medical personnel.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (219 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 1991.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The Limits of Medical Paternalism defines and morally assesses paternalistic interventions, especially in the context of modern medicine and health care, particular emphasis is given to the analysis of the conceptual background of the paternalism issue. In this book an anti-paternalistic view is presented and defended.
- Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface; THE PROBLEM OF PATERNALISM IN MODERN MEDICINE AND HEALTH CARE; FREEDOM, CONSTRAINT AND THE VALUE OF AUTONOMY; PATERNALISM, COERCION AND CONSTRAINT; THE UTILITARIAN CASE FOR STRONG PATERNALISM; MORALS AND SOCIETY; APPEALS TO RATIONALITY: THE VARIETIES OF PRUDENTIALISM; THE LIMITS OF MEDICAL PATERNALISM; Notes; Bibliography; Name index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-134-92382-1
- 1-280-33597-1
- 0-585-45150-8
- 9786610335978
- 1-134-92383-X
- 0-203-16105-X
- 9780203161050
- OCLC:
- 567853672
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