Seeking Medicine's Moral Centre : Ethics, Bioethics, and Assisted Dying / By Tom Koch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Koch, Tom, 1949- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Euthanasia--Moral and ethical aspects--Canada.

Euthanasia.

Medical ethics--Canada.

Medical ethics.

Assisted suicide.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxix, 335 pages) : illustration, charts

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

UK : Ethics International Press Limited, 2024.

Summary:

For the first time in two millennia, the Hippocratic ethic of medical care has been supplanted by a new bioethics. The bottom-up set of injunctions to care, of the patient and for society, ha been replaced by a top-down, commercial ethic focused on patient autonomy in a limited system of medical care. To understand this transformation, and its the effect, Seeking Medicine's Moral Centre focuses on the issue of "medical aid in dying," (MAiD) in Canada. Uniquely, it introduces ethnography as a tool to parse a set of academic and public articles reflecting the changing face of medical ethics from 1996 to the present. In doing so it joins the professional and the popular as a single dataset. It is the first book to seriously critique bioethics as a medical ethic through its focus on medical aid in dying as a still contested program in care of the chronically ill and fragile. Key audiences include journalists, medical anthropologists and sociologists; ethicists and bioethicists; medical and scientific researchers and policy makers.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781804415344

OCLC:

1494487695