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Who Decides?
Nora K. . Ed(S): Bell
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Hardback. Some of the key thinkers in bioethics today examine the often agonizing array of value choices that confront all of us in providing for our own health care, or that of those for whom we bear personal responsibility. Editor(s): Bell, Nora K. Series: Contemporary Issues in Biomedicine, Ethics and Society. Num Pages: 218 pages, biography. BIC Classification: MBDC; MBN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 1120.
Many of the demands being voiced for a "humanizing" of health care center on the public's concern that they have some say In determining what happens to the individual in health care institutions. The essays in this volume address fundamental questions of conflicts of rights and autonomy as they affect four selected, controversial areas in health care ethics: the Limits of Professional Autonomy, Refusing! Withdrawing from Treatment, Electing "Heroic" Measures, and Advancing Reproductive Technology. Each of the topics is addressed in such a way that it includes an examination of the locus of responsibility for ethical decision making. The topics ... Read more
Many of the demands being voiced for a "humanizing" of health care center on the public's concern that they have some say In determining what happens to the individual in health care institutions. The essays in this volume address fundamental questions of conflicts of rights and autonomy as they affect four selected, controversial areas in health care ethics: the Limits of Professional Autonomy, Refusing! Withdrawing from Treatment, Electing "Heroic" Measures, and Advancing Reproductive Technology. Each of the topics is addressed in such a way that it includes an examination of the locus of responsibility for ethical decision making. The topics ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1982
Publisher
Humana Press Inc. United States
Number of pages
218
Condition
New
Series
Contemporary Issues in Biomedicine, Ethics and Society
Number of Pages
218
Place of Publication
Totowa, NJ, United States
ISBN
9780896030343
SKU
V9780896030343
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