Moral Respect, Objectification, and Health Care

• Main Author: Schwartz, Meredith Celene (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Bioethics.; Medicine-Philosophy.; Medical ethics.; Ethics.; Philosophy of Medicine.; Theory of Medicine/Bioethics.; Moral Philosophy.

"Meredith Schwartz offers an original analysis of the nature of respect owed to patients in the context of health interactions. She explains what is the proper target of respect, why all humans (no matter their level of competence) are entitled to respect, why respect is especially important in...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Introduction
• Chapter 2. Dignity, Respect, and Objectification
• Chapter 3. Respect and Non-Autonomous Patients
• Chapter 4. Respect and the Lived Experience of Illness
• Chapter 5. Conclusion.