Description
Book Synopsis* Clearly written, unpretentious account * Makes classical ethical debates relevant to contemporary health care, and understandable to today's students * Uses plenty of interesting practical examples to illustrate key debates, helping to make the book seem particularly accessible.
Trade Review"This book concerns much good sense. Indeed, good sense is as much a methodological concern of the book as it is a way of characterizing its findings."
Philosophical Quarterly "Jennifer Jackson has produced an excellent book ... one that should engage the interest of anyone prepared to make a little effort. It is a lively and refreshing work, full of argument and comprising a good mixture of scholarly caution and forthright commitment ... Readers will find thought-provoking material throughout ... Everywhere Jackson shows a great talent for taking us quickly and without jargon or pedantry into deep philosophical questions, and I warmly recommend her work."
Journal of Medical Ethics
Table of ContentsPreface
Chapter One: Virtues and Vices
Chapter Two: Justice – A Problematic Virtue?
Chapter Three: Benevolence – A Problematic Virtue?
Chapter Four: Benevolence – The Only Virtue?
Chapter Five: The Dictates of Conscience
Chapter Six: The Duty to Obtain Consent
Chapter Seven: ‘First, Do No Harm'
Chapter Eight: Duties to Give, and Rights to Get, Health Care
Chapter Nine: Distributive Justice in Health Care
Chapter Ten: Abortion
Chapter Eleven: Suicide, Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia
Chapter Twelve: Killing and Letting Die
Chapter Thirteen: Patients’ Deaths and Doctors’ Decisions
Chapter Fourteen: Moral Issues in Reproductive Medicine
Chapter Fifteen: In Retrospect
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