This work charts the progress of changing values in medical and healthcare decision-making, particularly as a result of economic pressures, and the role of clinical ethics in determining what courses of action and treatment medical and healthcare professionals should pursue. It evaluates the concepts involved in ethical decision-making, such as risk and need, and whose values are relevant to which decisions and looks at the changing emphasis of medicine and the relevance of value judgments in clinical decisions. This stimulating work incorporates a number of different perspectives, disciplines, cultures and nationalities to provide a multi-disciplinary, international approach. In addition to medical and economic issues, the book also discusses philosophical and legal aspects.
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This work charts the progress of changing values in medical and healthcare decision-making, particularly as a result of economic pressures, and the role of clinical ethics in determining what courses of action and treatment medical and healthcare professionals should pursue. It evaluates the concepts involved in ethical decision-making, such as risk and need, and whose values are relevant to which decisions and looks at the changing emphasis of medicine and the relevance of value judgments in clinical decisions. This stimulating work incorporates a number of different perspectives, disciplines, cultures and nationalities to provide a multi-disciplinary, international approach. In addition to medical and economic issues, the book also discusses philosophical and legal aspects.
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In recent years there has been a general slowing down in the rate of growth of expenditure on health care in the majority of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) industrialised countries (OECD, 1987). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
relativistic autonomy, deontological autonomy, second order necessities, medical disciplinary committee, first order necessities, minimalist community, hermeneutic ethics, functional rationality, clinical ethics, malpractice trials, standard circumstances, vital goals, social autonomy, opportunity range, rationing health care Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Secretary of State, New England Journal of Medicine, John Wiley, Sons Ltd, United States, Court of Appeal, National Health Service, Patient Board of Complaints, Cambridge University Press, Kegan Paul, Oxford University Press, British Medical, Hastings Center Report, Journal of Medical Ethics, Nuffield Provincial Hospitals Trust, University of Chicago Press, Biomedical Sciences, Harvard University Press, Mary Douglas, Princeton University Press, Sociology of Perception, Van Tongeren, Zwanenberg's Slachterijen New!
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In recent years there has been a general slowing down in the rate of growth of expenditure on health care in the majority of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) industrialised countries (OECD, 1987). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
relativistic autonomy, deontological autonomy, second order necessities, medical disciplinary committee, first order necessities, minimalist community, hermeneutic ethics, functional rationality, clinical ethics, malpractice trials, standard circumstances, vital goals, social autonomy, opportunity range, rationing health care Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Secretary of State, New England Journal of Medicine, John Wiley, Sons Ltd, United States, Court of Appeal, National Health Service, Patient Board of Complaints, Cambridge University Press, Kegan Paul, Oxford University Press, British Medical, Hastings Center Report, Journal of Medical Ethics, Nuffield Provincial Hospitals Trust, University of Chicago Press, Biomedical Sciences, Harvard University Press, Mary Douglas, Princeton University Press, Sociology of Perception, Van Tongeren, Zwanenberg's Slachterijen New!
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- Clinical Decision Analysis by Milton C. Weinstein on page 92, and page 95
- Just Health Care (Studies in Philosophy and Health Policy) by Norman Daniels on page 30, and page 121
- The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn on page 62, and page 80
- Discourse on Thinking (Torchbooks) by Martin Heidegger on page 35, and page 50
- Clinical Ethics: A Practical Approach to Ethical Decisions in Clinical Medicine, Sixth Edition by Albert Jonsen on page 39, and page 50
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