Medicine and Moral Philosophy (eBook)

A Philosophy and Public Affairs Reader

Marshall Cohen (Herausgeber)

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2014
322 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-5356-4 (ISBN)

Infos

Responding to the increased public interest in the moral aspects of medical practice, this collection of essays focuses on questions of justice and injustice in the delivery and distribution of medical care and on problems concerning the rights of patients in their relationship to doctors, medical institutions, and government.Originally published in 1982.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.7.2014
• Reihe/Serie: Philosophy and Public Affairs Readers
• Reihe/Serie: Philosophy and Public Affairs Readers
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Schlagworte: Abortion • advance healthcare directive • Alternative medicine • Antimicrobial Resistance • Bioethics • Blood Donation • Brain death • Clinical psychology • Compliance (medicine) • consent • Consideration • Custodial Care • Deem (law) • Deficiency (medicine) • Dialysis • Disease • distributive justice • Doctor–patient relationship • Dualism (philosophy of mind) • Duty of care • Duty to rescue • Economics, Medical • Elective Surgery • ethical code • ethics • euthanasia • Euthanasia, Active • General medical examination • Good and evil • Health • Health Care • healthcare industry • Health Economics • health education • health insurance • Health insurance in the United States • Health maintenance organization • health policy • Health Technology • Hemodialysis • heroic medicine • idealization • immunization • Immunosuppression • Indication (medicine) • Insufflation (medicine) • insurance • Internal Medicine • International Health • life insurance • Medicaid • Medical Diagnosis • medical education • medical emergency • Medical Ethics • medicalization • Medical jurisprudence • Medical literature • medical paternalism • medical procedure • Medical Research • Medical state • Mental disorder • Morality • Moral Reasoning • national health insurance • Ownership (psychology) • paternalism • Philosopher • Philosophy of Biology • Philosophy of Language • Philosophy of mind • philosophy of science • Physician • Physiognomy • practical ethics • prescription drug • Presumption (canon law) • Primary care physician • Professional liability insurance • Psychiatry • Psychoanalysis • psychotherapy • Pulmonary Edema • Right to Education • Right To Health • Right to life • socialized medicine • Specialty (medicine) • Summa Theologica • Symptom • terminal illness • The Myth of Mental Illness • The New England Journal of Medicine • United States Department of Health and Human Services • Utilitarianism • Vaccine • Value (ethics) • Voluntary euthanasia • World Health Organization
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-5356-7 / 1400853567
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-5356-4 / 9781400853564