Just Doctoring: Medical Ethics in the Liberal State - Couverture rigide

Brennan, Troyen A.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0520073339 ISBN 13 : 9780520073333

Editeur : University of California Press, 1991

Synopsis

Just Doctoring draws the doctor-patient relationship out of the consulting room and into the middle of the legal and political arenas where it more and more frequently appears. Traditionally, medical ethics has focused on the isolated relationship of physician to patient in a setting that has left the physician virtually untouched by market constraints or government regulation. Arguing that changes in health care institutions and legal attention to patient rights have made conventional approaches obsolete, Troyen Brennan points the way to a new, more aware and engaged medical ethics.

The medical profession is no longer isolated, even theoretically, from the liberal, market-dominated state. Old ideas of physician beneficence and altruism must make way for a justice-based medical ethics, assuming a relationship between equals more compatible with liberal political philosophy. Brennan offers clinical examples of many of today's most challenging medical problems―from informed consent to care rationing and the repercussions of the HIV epidemic―and gives his recommendation for a new ethical perspective. This lively and controversial plea for a rethinking of medical ethics goes right to the heart of medical care at the end of the twentieth century.

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À propos de l'auteur

Troyen A. Brennan is Assistant Professor at the Harvard Medical School. He also has a law degree and has taught at the Harvard Law School.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of California Press
• Date d'édition: 1991
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0520073339
• ISBN 13: 9780520073333
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 301
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible