Testing the Medical Covenant: Active Euthanasia and Health Care Reform - Couverture souple

May, MR William F

 
9781592444533: Testing the Medical Covenant: Active Euthanasia and Health Care Reform
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1592444539 ISBN 13 : 9781592444533
Editeur : Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2004

Synopsis

William F. May, a leading expert on medical ethics, here explores two of today's most crucial tests of the medical covenant - active euthanasia and health care reform. May begins with an incisive introduction that delineates the covenantal, or relational, nature of the practice of medicine over against the merely contractual view - the quid pro quos of the commercial buying and selling of professional services. In the subsequent chapters, May follows the implications of the medical covenant with respect to the related issues of euthanasia and health care reform. He also provides a covenantal view of professional character and virtue - what virtues we should look for in covenanted physicians and nurses - discusses the limits of the medical covenant in the face of medical futility, and examines the implications of covenant keeping for the shape of future health care reform.

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À propos de l?auteur

WILLIAM F. MAY is the Cary M. Maguire Professor of Ethics at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, and director of the Cary M. Maguire Center for Ethics and Public Responsibility. His other books include The Physician's Covenant and The Patient's Ordeal

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Éditeur
Wipf & Stock Publishers
Date d'édition
2004
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1592444539
ISBN 13 
9781592444533
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
156
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Personne responsable
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