Principles of Health Care Ethics

This is a book of byzantine proportions: a treasure trove for anyone with even the slightest initial interest in biomedical ethics. Indeed this book demonstrates that biomedical ethics is a microcosm of culture broadly conceived.
Principles of Health Care Ethics is unique. There is no other source–book that provides such diversity within the field. Here you can explore Eastern as well as Western approaches; examine the value of scientific studies in ethics, or of bizarre thought experiments. You can read about specific issues arising in clinical care, or gaze into a future when drugs might be widely used not only to treat disease but also to enhance health and abilities. There are twenty chapters on political and social issues and almost as many on the ethics of medical research and new technologies.
The first edition of Principles of Health Care Ethics was a constant companion for me, although one that was rather too frequently ‘borrowed’. This second edition is even more exciting. A book of reference; and also a book to explore."
—Tony Hope, Professor of Medical Ethics, University of Oxford
The topics discussed in this book are relevant to everyone working in, or associated with, medicine and health care, whether student, practitioner, teacher of researcher, but its appeal will also extend to those in the fields of philosophy, medical law, sociology and theology, and the general reader concerned about the many moral problems that arise in medical practice.

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List of Contributors.
Foreword by Raanan E. Gillon (Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London).
Foreword by Tony Hope (Professor of Medical Ethics, University of Oxford).
Preface.
Part I: Methodology and Perspectives.
Introduction (John R. McMillan).
1 The ′Four Principles′ Approach to Health Care Ethics (Tom L. Beauchamp).
2 Theories of Autonomy (Natalie Stoljar).
3 Beneficence (G arrett Cullity).
4 Responsibilities for Poverty–Related Ill Health (Thomas W. Pogge).
5 Liberalism and Communitarianism (Colin Tyler).
6 How Many Principles for Bioethics? (Robert M. Veatch).
7 Casuistical Reasoning in Medical Ethics (Albert R. Jonsen).
8 Utilitarianism and Bioethics (Matti Häyry).
9 Deontology (David A. McNaughton and J. Piers Rawling).
10 Kantian Ethics (Onora O′Neill).
11 Feminist Approaches to Health Care Ethics (Susan Sherwin).
12 Virtue Theory (Justin Oakley).
13 Moral Relativism (Mark Sheehan).
14 Christian Approaches to Bioethics (Heather Widdows).
15 Judaism and Medicine: Jewish Medical Ethics (Fred Rosner).
16 The Search for Islamic Bioethics Principles (Abdulaziz Sachedina).
17 Buddhist Bioethics (James Hughes).
18 South Asian Approaches to Health Care Ethics (Harold Coward).
19 The Specious Idea of an Asian Bioethics: Beyond Dichotomizing East and West (Jing–Bao Nie).
20 Narrative Ethics (Howard Brody).
21 Empirical Approaches to Health Care Ethics (Jeremy Sugarman, Robert A. Pearlman and Holly A. Taylor).
22 Medical Sociology and the Redundancy of Empirical Ethics (Adam Hedgecoe).
23 The Use of Thought Experiments in Health Care Ethics (Adrian Walsh).
24 Deliberative Bioethics (Michael Parker).
25 Law, Ethics and Health Care (Sheila A.M. McLean).
26 Medical Humanities: An Overview (Martyn Evans).
27 Reflective Equilibrium as a Method in Health Care Ethics (Theo van Willigenburg).
28 Hermeneutic Ethics between Practice and Theory (Guy A.M. Widdershoven and Tineke A. Abma).
29 Paternalism in Health Care and Health Policy (James F. Childress).
30 Need: An Instrumental View (Anthony J. Culyer).
31 Rights (James G.S. Wilson).
32 Exploitation in Health Care (Alan Wertheimer).
33 Competence to Consent (Monique F. Jonas).
34 The Doctrine of Double Effect (Suzanne Uniacke).
35 Ordinary and Extraordinary Means (Stephen D. John).
36 Acts and Omissions (Tuija Takala).
37 Personhood and Moral Status (Ainsley J. Newson).
38 Commodification (Stephen Wilkinson).
Part II: Issues in Health Care Practice.
Introduction (Heather Draper).
39 Consent and Informed Consent (Neil C. Manson).
40 Treatment Decisions for Incapacitated Patients (Rebecca S. Dresser).
41 Children′s Consent to Medical Treatment (David W. Archard).
42 Patients and Disclosure of Surgical Risk (Justin Oakley).
43 Confidentiality (Rebecca Bennett).
44 Truth–telling, Lying and the Doctor–Patient Relationship (Roger Higgs).
45 Personal Beliefs and Patient Care (Jennifer Jackson).
46 Conscience and Health Care Ethics (Piers Benn).
47 Care in Families (Hilde Lindemann).
48 The Ethics of Primary Health Care (Annettee J. Braunack–Mayer).
49 The Nurse–Patient Relationship: A ′rinciples plus Care′Account (Steven D. Edwards).
50 Dual Responsibilities: Do They Raise Any Different Ethical Issues than "Normal" Therapeutic Relationships? (Ann Sommerville and Veronica English).
51 Violent and Abusive Patients: An Ethically Informed Response (Graham M. Behr, J.S. Emmanuel and J. P. Ruddock).
52 The Moral Significance of the Human Foetus (Norman Ford).
53 Will We Need Abortion in Utopia? (Adrienne Asch).
54 Maternal–Foetal Conflict (Rosamund Scott).
55 Limits to Reproductive Liberty (Thomas H. Murray).
56 Disability without Denial (Tom Sorell).
57 Disability and Equality: Should Difference Be Welcomed? (Tom Shakespeare).
58 Genetic Counselling (Angus Clarke).
59 Ethics and Psychotherapy: An Issue of Trust (Tim Bond).
60 Mental Illness and Compulsory Treatment (John R. McMillan).
61 Personality Disorders and Compulsory Detention (Matt Matravers).
62 Labia Mea, Domine: Media, Morality and Eating Disorders (Simona Giordano).
63 Intellectual Disability (Pekka Louhiala).
64 Ethical Issues and Health Care fo r Older People (Julian C. Hughes).
65 Organs and Tissues for Transplantation and Research (David P.T. Price).
66 Living Donor Organ Transplantation (Timothy M. Wilkinson).
67 Euthanasia and Principled Health Care Ethics: From Conflict to Compromise? (Richard Huxtable).
68 Understanding and Misunderstanding Death (David Lamb).
69 Ethics without Boundaries: Medical Tourism (Guido Pennings).
70 Ethics of Performance Enhancement in Sport: Drugs and Gene Doping (Bennett Foddy and Julian Savulescu).
71 Training Good Professionals: Ethics and Health Care Education (Nafsika Athanassoulis).
72 Ethics Consultations and Ethics Committees (Anne Slowther).
Part III: Medicine in Society.
Introduction (Angus Dawson).
73 The Concepts of Health and Illness (Lennart Y. Nordenfelt).
74 Community in Public Health Ethics (Bruce Jennings).
75 Health Promotion, Society and Health Care Ethics (Alan Cribb).
76 Preventing Disease (Marcel Verweij).
77 Quantitative Methods for Priority–Setting in Health: Ethical Issues (Daniel Wikler, Dan W. Brock, Sarah Marchand, and Tessa Tan Torres).
78 Economics, Political Philosophy and Ethics: The Role of Public Preferences in Health Care Decision Making (Jeff Richardson and John McKie).
79 Decision Analysis: the Ethical Approach to Most Health Decision Making (Jack Dowie).
80 Health Inequities and the Social Determinants of Health (Wendy Rogers).
81 Organizational Ethics in Health Care (Jacob E. Kurlander and Marion Danis).
82 Ethical Issues in Epidemiology (Steven S. Coughlin).
83 Screening: Ethical Aspects (Niklas Juth and Christian Munthe).
84 Vaccination Ethics (Angus Dawson).
85 The Patient as Victim and Vector: Bioethics and the Challenge of Infectious Disease (Margaret P. Battin, Linda S. Carr–Lee, Leslie P. Francis, Jay A. Jacobson, and Charles B. Smith).
86 Bioterrorism, Society and Health Care Ethics (Michael J. Selgelid).
87 Drug Addiction, Society