The years since the late 1950s have spawned public debate on medical ethical issues ranging from abortion, terminating life-sustaining care, and euthanasia to informed consent, the just allocation of medical resources, and surrogate motherhood. Yet for all the increased attention focused on these issues, there has been no consensus on their resolution. Ezekiel Emanuel, who is trained as both a physician and a political theorist, rejects the claim that most of these medical ethical dilemmas are created by the recent advances in medical technology; he maintains instead that the seemingly endless debates are the inevitable consequence of liberal political values. He proposes an alternative ideology, a liberal communitarianism which imagines a federation of political communities dedicated to democratic deliberations to guide the formulation of laws and policies. Emanuel outlines six conceptions of the "good life" that involve different views of medical ethics, pointing out that choosing among them violates the liberal tenet of neutrality. A further problem lies in the fact that although almost no one believes the current U.S health system is just or excellent, we cannot agreee on a national health care program. He describes his own solution, showing that the communitarian vision is compatible with many characteristics of the American medical system and can provide an ethical framework for resolving these pressing medical ethical issues. It is aimed at physicians, medical ethicists, political philosophers, and students of public policy. It should also interest general readers concerned with the major medical and ethical problems confronting society.
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The Ends of Human Life, Liberal Communitarian Vision of Health Care, The Just Distribution of Medical Resources, United States, Karen Quinlan, The Political Conception of Medical Ethics, New Jersey Supreme Court, President's Commission, Shep Glazer, Earle Spring, Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, Baby Doe, Oregon Health Decisions, The Adam Smith, Bill of Rights, Jeremy Bentham, Orthodox Jews, Orthodox Jewish, New England, The Nature of Liberal Political Philosophy, Medical Level, Autonomous Conception Browse Sample Pages:
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- Just Health Care (Studies in Philosophy and Health Policy) by Norman Daniels on 15 pages
- Justice As Fairness (Irvington Publishers Reprint Series in Philosophy) by John Rawls on 7 pages
- Access to Health Care (Key Indicators for Policy Series) by Center for Health Economics Research on 6 pages
- Medical Ethics (Jones and Bartlett Series in Philosophy) by Robert M. Veatch on 6 pages
- Toward a More Natural Science: Biology and Human Affairs by Leon R. Kass on 5 pages
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- The Limits of Principle: Deciding Who Lives and What Dies by Tom Koch in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Justice and Justification: Reflective Equilibrium in Theory and Practice (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Public Policy) by Norman Daniels on page 282, and page 326
- Stories and Their Limits: Narrative Approaches to Bioethics (Reflective Bioethics) by Hilde Lindemann Nelson on page 147, and page 148
- Reproducing Persons: Issues in Feminist Bioethics by Laura Martha Purdy in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Principles of Biomedical Ethics (Principles of Biomedical Ethics (Beauchamp)) by Tom L. Beauchamp on page 272, and page 380
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