Edited by four leading members of the new generation of medical and
healthcare ethicists working in the UK, respected worldwide for
their work in medical ethics, Principles of Health Care
Ethics, Second Edition is a standard resource for
students, professionals, and academics wishing to understand
current and future issues in healthcare ethics.
With a distinguished international panel of contributors working
at the leading edge of academia, this volume presents a
comprehensive guide to the field, with state of the art
introductions to the wide range of topics in modern healthcare
ethics, from consent to human rights, from utilitarianism to
feminism, from the doctor-patient relationship to
xenotransplantation.
This volume is the Second Edition of the highly successful work
edited by Professor Raanan Gillon, Emeritus Professor of Medical
Ethics at Imperial College London and former editor of the Journal
of Medical Ethics, the leading journal in this field.
Developments from the First Edition include: The
focus on 'Four Principles Method’ is relaxed to cover
more different methods in health care ethics. More material on new
medical technologies is included, the coverage of issues on the
doctor/patient relationship is expanded, and material on ethics and
public health is brought together into a new section.
O autorze
Richard Edmund Ashcroft, Reader in Biomedical Ethics,
Imperial College, London, UK.
Angus Dawson, Director, Centre for Professional Ethics,
University of Keele, UK.
Heather Draper, Senior Lecturer in Healthcare Ethics,
University of Birmingham, UK.
John Mc Millan, Senior Lecturer in Medical Ethics,
Hull-York Medical School, UK.
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