Ethics in Medicine
Medical ethics and the medical profession are inseparable, yet the formal teaching of medical ethics is a relatively new phenomenon. Furthermore, since the introduction of managed health care, with the physician becoming a 'health provider' and the patient a 'client', the whole c...
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| Μορφή: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο |
| Γλώσσα: | English |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
2014.
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Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- Part 1. Ethics through the ages: 1 . Early period
- 2. Greek period - Sophists and Socrates et al
- 3. Arab period
- 4. Bacon - Bertrand Russell
- 5. Voltaire - Dawkins- McIntyre
- Part 2. Metaphysics, religious- secular perspectives: 6. Analysis of secular and religious thought
- Part 3. Cultural anthropology and medical ethics: 7. Normative principles, autonomy, beneficence, non maleficence and justice
- 8. Universalism or Relativism
- 9. Medical ethics in a pluralistic society
- Part 4. Nomenclature and description: 10. Principles and sources of medical ethics
- 11. Justice: a pillar of ethics. Distributive justice and international clinical trials
- Part 5. The role of ethics in evolution of medicine: 12.Research ethics
- 13. Human experimentation
- 14. The scourge of drug trials
- 15. Human embryonic stem cell research
- 16. Stem cell in cultivation of sensory organs, curing deafness
- 17. Cybrid. Is science going mad?
- 18. Teaching medical ethics
- Part 6. Reproductive health, ART, IVF, Abortion, Pregenetic diagnosis (PGD): 19. Assisted Reproductive Technologies
- 20. IVF, Pre genetic diagnosis, termination of pregnancy
- 21. Surrogacy
- Part 7. Managed health care: 22. Rationing. Services within limited resources
- 23. Futility of treatment. Euthanasia
- 24. Therapeutic nihilism
- Part 8. Quality of life issues: 25. Care of the elderly, and QALYS
- 26. Hospices and palliative care
- 27. Controversial pathways , passive euthanasia. Assisted life termination
- 28. Assisted life prolongation and end of life issues
- Part 9. Physicians' oaths: 29. Lessons drawn from Duae Makaram Al Akhlaq
- 30. Hippocratic oath and contemporary faith based oaths.
