Healthcare and Human Dignity: Law Matters - Couverture souple

McClellan, Frank M.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1978802951 ISBN 13 : 9781978802957

Editeur : Rutgers University Press, 2019

Synopsis

The individual and structural biases that affect the American healthcare system have serious emotional and physical consequences that all too often go unseen. These biases are often rooted in power, class, racial, gender or sexual orientation prejudices, and as a result, the injured parties usually lack the resources needed to protect themselves. In Healthcare and Human Dignity, individual worth, equality, and autonomy emerge as the dominant values at stake in encounters with doctors, nurses, hospitals, and drug companies. Although the public is aware of legal battles over autonomy and dignity in the context of death, the everyday patient's need for dignity has received scant attention. Thus, in Healthcare, law professor Frank McClellan's collection of cases and individual experiences bring these stories to life and establish beyond doubt that human dignity is of utmost priority in the everyday process of healthcare decision making.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Frank McClellan is a professor of law emeritus at the Beasley School of Law, Temple University, Philadelphia. He is the author of Medical Malpractice: Law, Tactics and Ethics (Temple University Press, 1994) and co-author of Tort Law: Cases, Perspectives, and Problems (LexisNexis, 1991-2007).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Rutgers University Press
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1978802951
• ISBN 13: 9781978802957
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 202
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