The Limits of Medical Paternalism

Heta Häyry (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

218 Seiten

1991
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-06320-3 (ISBN)

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Defines and morally assesses paternalistic interventions, especially in the context of modern medicine and health care. The author presents and defends an anti-paternalistic view.

The Limits of Medical Paternalism defines and morally assesses paternalistic interventions, especially in the context of modern medicine and health care, particular emphasis is given to the analysis of the conceptual background of the paternalism issue. In this book an anti-paternalistic view is presented and defended.

Heta Häyry

Preface, 1. THE PROBLEM OF PATERNALISM IN MODERN MEDICINE AND HEALTH CARE, 2. FREEDOM, CONSTRAINT AND THE VALUE OF AUTONOMY, 3. PATERNALISM, COERCION AND CONSTRAINT, 4. THE UTILITARIAN CASE FOR STRONG PATERNALISM, 5. MORALS AND SOCIETY, 6. APPEALS TO RATIONALITY: THE VARIETIES OF PRUDENTIALISM, 7. THE LIMITS OF MEDICAL PATERNALISM, Notes, Bibliography, Name index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	12.12.1991
Reihe/Serie	Social Ethics and Policy
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	340 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Medizinethik
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
ISBN-10	0-415-06320-5 / 0415063205
ISBN-13	978-0-415-06320-3 / 9780415063203
Zustand	Neuware