Textbook of healthcare ethics /

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Author / Creator:Loewy, Erich H.
Edition:2nd ed.
Imprint:Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, c2004.
Description:xiii, 382 p. ; 25 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5361877
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Varying Form of Title:Textbook of health care ethics
Other authors / contributors:Loewy, Roberta Springer.
ISBN:1402014600 (hbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction to Second Edition
  • Chapter 1. Historical Introduction
  • Chapter 2. Knowledge and Ethics
  • Chapter 3. Theoretical Considerations
  • Chapter 4. Fallibility and the Problem of Blameworthiness in Medicine
  • Chapter 5. The Ongoing Dialectic between Autonomy and Responsibility in a Pluralist World
  • Chapter 6. Patients, Society and Healthcare Professionals
  • Chapter 7. Genetics and Ethics
  • Chapter 8. Problems of Macro-allocation
  • Chapter 9. Organ Donation
  • Chapter 10. Problems at the Beginning of Life
  • Chapter 11. Problems in the Care of the Terminally Ill
  • Chapter 12. Common Problems in Everyday Practice
  • Chapter 13. Resolving Ethical Problems: An Introduction to Individual Cases
  • Index