Textbook of Healthcare Ethics

• Main Authors: Loewy, Erich H. (Author), Loewy, Roberta Springer (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2005.
• Edition: 2nd Edition.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Ethics.; General practice (Medicine).; Internal medicine.; Pediatrics.; Medical ethics.; Medicine & Public Health.; General Practice / Family Medicine.; Internal Medicine.; Theory of Medicine/Bioethics.

1 Historical Introduction INTRODUCTION This chapter is mainly about the history of medicine and its ethics. As usually c- ceived, history is retrograde: It is what happened yesterday, and, much as we may try, it is what happened yesterday seen with a set of today’s eyes. Trying to understand yesterd...

Table of Contents:

• Historical Introduction
• Knowledge and Ethics
• Theoretical Considerations
• Fallibility and the Problem of Blameworthiness in Medicine
• The Ongoing Dialectic between Autonomy and Responsibility in a Pluralist World
• Patients, Society and Healthcare Professionals
• Genetics and Ethics
• Problems of Macro-allocation
• Organ Donation
• Problems at the Beginning of Life
• Problems in the Care of the Terminally Ill
• Common Problems in Everyday Practice
• Resolving Ethical Problems: An Introduction to Individual Cases.