Principles of Health Care Ethics
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| Publisher: | John Wiley & Sons |
| Subject: | Medical ethics, Ethics, Clinical, Bioethical Issues, Biomedical Technology--ethics, Delivery of Health Care--ethics, Professional-Patient Relations--ethics, Social Medicine |
| Authors: | Richard Edmund Ashcroft , Angus Dawson , Heather Draper , John McMillan |
| Pages: | 864 pages |
| Binding: | Hardcover |
| ISBN: | 9780470510537 |
| Call No: | R 724. P69 2007 |
Edited by four leading members of the new generation of medical and healthcare ethicists working in the UK, respected worldwide for their work in medical ethics, Principles of Health Care Ethics, Second Edition is a standard resource for students, professionals, and academics wishing to understand current and future issues in healthcare ethics.
With a distinguished international panel of contributors working at the leading edge of academia, this volume presents a comprehensive guide to the field, with state of the art introductions to the wide range of topics in modern healthcare ethics, from consent to human rights, from utilitarianism to feminism, from the doctor-patient relationship to xenotransplantation.
This volume is the Second Edition of the highly successful work edited by Professor Raanan Gillon, Emeritus Professor of Medical Ethics at Imperial College London and former editor of the Journal of Medical Ethics, the leading journal in this field.