Preventive medicine between obligation and aspiration /
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| Author / Creator: | Verweij, M. F. |
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| Imprint: | Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000. |
| Description: | viii, 190 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | International library of ethics, law, and the new medicine ; v. 4 |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5175758 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface and acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction
- 1.1. The moral dimensions of preventive medicine
- 1.2. Aims of this study
- 1.3. Demarcation of the field of application
- 1.4. Overview of the chapters
- 1.5. Method: ethical theory and moral practice
- Part I. Preventive Medicine: Moral Problems and Moral Norms
- 2. What is preventive medicine?
- 2.1. The goals of preventive medicine
- 2.2. The range of possibilities for preventive medicine and health promotion
- 2.3. Preventive medicine is directed at healthy populations
- 2.4. Population and high-risk strategies
- 2.5. The prevention paradox
- 2.6. Preventive medicine as a worthwhile practice
- 2.7. Conclusion
- 3. Medical-ethical dimensions of preventive medicine
- 3.1. Introduction
- 3.2. The principles of biomedical ethics: dispute and appraisal
- 3.3. Beneficence
- 3.4. Non-maleficence
- 3.5. Respect for autonomy
- 3.6. Justice
- 3.7. Conclusion
- 4. The prevention paradox and tensions between private and public interests
- 4.1. Introduction: the prevention paradox as a moral problem
- 4.2. The concept of interest
- 4.3. Is the preservation of health necessarily in one's net interest?
- 4.4. Common interests in preventive medicine
- 4.5. Group interests in mass screening
- 4.6. Public interests in vaccination programmes
- 4.7. A public good in population-oriented life-style interventions
- 4.8. Conclusion
- 5. Medicalization as a moral problem for preventive Medicine
- 5.1. Introduction
- 5.2. The concept of medicalization
- 5.3. Iatrogenic risks of prevention
- 5.4. The accumulation of uncertainty
- 5.5. Responsibility for health and victim blaming
- 5.6. The loss of autonomy and independence
- 5.7. The importance of the value of health in the lives of persons
- 5.8. The obligation to participate in prevention
- 5.9. Conclusion
- Part II. Obligation and Beyond
- 6. The concept of duty and obligation
- 6.1. Introduction
- 6.2. Mill's concept of moral duty
- 6.3. Duties bind persons to acts
- 6.4. The nature of requirement of duty
- 6.5. The priority of obligations in moral deliberation
- 6.6. Conclusion: the concept of moral obligation
- 7. Medicalization, moral obligations and beyond
- 7.1. Introduction
- 7.2. Moral norms and moral obligations
- 7.3. Health promotion at the worksite: A case of medicalization?
- 7.4. The special nature of the non-medicalization norm
- 7.5. The non-medicalization norm as an obligation not to medicalize
- 7.6. The non-medicalization norm as invoking an obligation to refrain from programmes which cause medicalization effects
- 7.7. The obligation to minimise medicalization
- 7.8. A general obligation to avoid medicalization
- 7.9. The clear core of norms thesis revisited
- 8. Beyond obligation
- 8.1. Introduction
- 8.2. Only a matter of weight?
- 8.3. From acts to persons?
- 8.4. Beyond obligation
- 8.5. The character of the non-medicalization norm
- 8.6. Responsibility and the principles of bioethics
- 9. Conclusions
- Bibliography
- Index
