Textbook of Healthcare Ethics

• Main Author: Loewy, Erich H. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2002.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Ethics.; General practice (Medicine).; Public health.; Internal medicine.; Epidemiology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Internal Medicine.; General Practice / Family Medicine.; Public Health.; Medicine/Public Health, general.

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...

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.