A virtue-based defense of perinatal hospice / Aaron D. Cobb.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cobb, Aaron D., author.

Series:

Routledge annals of bioethics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Perinatal death.

Perinatal death--Psychological aspects.

Hospice care--Philosophy.

Hospice care.

Maternal health services--Moral and ethical aspects.

Maternal health services.

Infant health services--Moral and ethical aspects.

Infant health services.

Medical ethics.

Perinatal Death.

Hospice Care.

Maternal-Child Health Services--ethics.

Newborn infants--Medical care--Moral and ethical aspects.

Newborn infants--Mortality.

Palliative treatment.

Philosophy.

Medical Subjects:

Perinatal Death.

Hospice Care.

Maternal-Child Health Services--ethics.

Physical Description:

ix, 183 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.

Summary:

"Perinatal hospice is a novel form of care for an unborn child who has been diagnosed with a significantly life-limiting condition. In this book, Aaron D. Cobb develops a virtue-based defense of the value of perinatal hospice. He characterizes its promotion and provision as a common project of individuals, local communities, and institutions working together to provide exemplary care. Engaging with important themes from the work of Alasdair MacIntyre and Robert Adams, he shows how perinatal hospice manifests virtues crucial to meeting the needs of families in these difficult circumstances. As a work of applied virtue ethics, this book has important normative, social, and political implications for the creation and development of structured programs of care. It grounds the view that communities ought (i) to devote resources to ensure that these programs are widely available and (ii) to develop social structures that promote awareness of and accessibility to these forms of care. A Virtue-Based Defense of Perinatal Hospice will be of interest to philosophers working in bioethics and applied virtue ethics, as well as scholars in the fields of neonatology, nursing, palliative and hospice care, and counseling who are interested in the study of perinatal hospice"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Toward a Virtue-Based Defense of Perinatal Hospice

2. Virtues of Acknowledged Dependence and Common Projects of Care

3. Life-Limiting Diagnoses and the Virtue of Hospitality

4. Futility and the Virtue of Hope

5. Isolation and the Virtue of Solidarity

6. Grief and the Virtue of Compassion

7. Virtuous Projects of Social, Structural, and Institutional Reform.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Cobb, Aaron D. Virtue-based defense of perinatal hospice.

ISBN:

9780815372998

081537299X

OCLC:

1112376982

Publisher Number:

99989057589