Duties to Others
Despite reservoirs of moral discourse about duties in religious communities, professional caregiving traditions, and philosophical perspectives, the dominant moral language in contemporary biomedical ethics is that of `rights'. Duties to Others begins to correct this imbalance in our ethical la...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1994, 1994
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1994 |
| Series: | Theology and Medicine
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Section I: Conceptual Foundations
- Taking Duties Seriously? The Decline of Duties in a Rights Culture
- Encountering the Other
- Theology and the Invitation of the Stranger
- Self and Other in Feminist Thought
- Section II: Traditions of Duties
- Duties to Others in Roman Catholic Thought
- Duties to Others and Covenantal Ethics
- Duty, Virtue, and the Victim’s Voice
- Section III: Duties and the Clinical Context
- Self-Interest, The Physician’s Duties, and Medical Ethics: A Philosophical and Theological Challenge
- Duties to Others in Nursing
- Suffering, Compassion, and Care
- Gifts and Caring Duties in Medicine
- Duties of Patients to Their Caregivers
- Section IV: Duties in Social Context
- Needy Persons and Rationed Resources
- Bioethics in the Post-Modern World: Belief and Secularity
- Intergenerational Relations
- Section V: Duties in Conflict
- Conflict, Compromise, and Moral Integrity
- Genetic Testing, Individual Rights, and the Common Good
- Fidelity to Patients and Resource Constraints
- Notes on Contributors