Professional Ethics and Primary Care Medicine

Beyond Dilemmas and Decorum

Harmon L. Smith, Larry R. Churchill (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

126 Seiten

1985
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8223-0540-8 (ISBN)

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This volume moves beyond ethics as problem-solving or ethics as etiquette to offer a look at ethics in primary care—as opposed to life-or-death—medical care. Professional Ethics and Primary Care Medicine deals with the ethics of routine, day-to-day encounters between doctors and patients. It probes beneath the hard decisions to look at the moral frameworks, habits of thought, and customs of practice that underlie choices. Harmon Smith and Larry Churchill argue that primary care, far from being merely a setting for the rendering of care, provides a new understanding of both physician and patient, and thereby offers a fresh basis for medical ethics.

Acknowledgments vii

Introduction 1

1. Primary Care: A Moral Notion 7

2. Ethics and Professionalism 21

3. Moral Imagination and Medicine 45

4. Case Studies in Primary Care 69

5. Primary Care and Social Justice 85

Notes 109

Index 115

Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Gewicht	227 g
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Medizinethik
Themenwelt	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
ISBN-10	0-8223-0540-2 / 0822305402
ISBN-13	978-0-8223-0540-8 / 9780822305408
Zustand	Neuware