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Textbook of Healthcare Ethics

Here, Erich H. Loewy expands on his earlier book Textbook of Medical Ethics (1989) offering healthcare workers and students a new perspective on ethical practice. Textbook of Healthcare Ethics focuses on the social conditions in which medical practice occurs and how ethical healthcare decisions invo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Loewy, Erich E.H.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 2002, 2002
Edition:1st ed. 2002
Subjects:
Ethics
Public Health
Internal Medicine
Medical Sciences
Health Sciences
Family Medicine
Epidemiology
Moral Philosophy And Applied Ethics
General Practice And Family Medicine
Online Access:
Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Historical Introduction
  • Theoretical Considerations
  • Fallibility and the Problem of Blameworthiness in Medicine
  • The Ongoing Dialectic between Autonomy and Responsibility in a Pluralist World
  • Ethical Problems Approaches and Alternatives
  • Patients, Society, and Healthcare Professionals
  • The AIDS Paradigm
  • Organ Donation
  • Problems in the Care of the Terminally Ill
  • Problems at the Beginning of Life
  • Problems of Macroallocation
  • “Solving” Ethical Problems

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