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Who Decides?

Conflicts of Rights in Health Care

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  • © 1982

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Editors:
  1. Nora K. Bell

    1. Department of Philosophy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, USA

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Nora K. Bell
      Pages 1-25

  3. Patients and Their Healers

    1. Patients and Their Healers

      • Guenter B. Risse
      Pages 27-45

  4. Limits of Professional Autonomy

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 47-47
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    2. Goals of Medical Care

      • H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr.
      Pages 49-66

    3. Establishing Limits to Professional Autonomy: Whose Responsibility?

      • Mila Ann Aroskar
      Pages 67-78

    4. Limits to Responsibility and Decision-Making

      • Jay Wolfson
      Pages 79-82

    5. Can Physicians Mind Their Own Business and Still Practice Medicine?

      • Samuel Gorovitz
      Pages 83-93

    6. Allocating Autonomy

      • Sally Gadow
      Pages 95-106

  5. Refusing/Withdrawing from treatment

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 107-107
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    2. The Right to Refuse Treatment

      • Thomas Szasz
      Pages 109-118

    3. Refusal of Psychiatric Treatment

      • Ruth Macklin
      Pages 119-131

    4. Consent and Competence

      • James L. Stiver
      Pages 133-136

  6. Death and Dying Electing Heroic Measures

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 137-137
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    2. What is Heroic?

      • James A. Bryan II
      Pages 139-147

    3. The Moral Justification for Withholding Heroic Procedures

      • Tom L. Beauchcamp
      Pages 149-161

    4. Response to Bryan and Beauchamp

      • Kevin Lewis
      Pages 163-166

  7. Advancing Reproductive Technology

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 167-167
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    2. Ethics and Reproductive Biology

      • Daniel Callahan
      Pages 169-178

    3. Fathers Anonymous

      • George J. Annas
      Pages 179-192
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About this book

Many of the demands being voiced for a "humanizing" of health care center on the public's concern that they have some say In determining what happens to the individual in health care institutions. The essays in this volume address fundamental questions of conflicts of rights and autonomy as they affect four selected, controversial areas in health care ethics: the Limits of Professional Autonomy, Refusing! Withdrawing from Treatment, Electing "Heroic" Measures, and Advancing Reproductive Technology. Each of the topics is addressed in such a way that it includes an examination of the locus of responsibility for ethical decision­ making. The topics are not intended to exhaustively review those areas of health care provision where conflicts of rights might be said to be an issue. Rather they constitute an examination of the difficulties so often encountered in these specific contexts that we hope will illuminate similar conflicts in other problem areas by raising the level of the reader's moral awareness. Many books in bioethics appeal only to a limited audience in spite of the fact that their subject matter is of deep personal concern to everyone. In part, this is true because they are frequently written from the perspective of a single discipline or a single profession. As a result, one is often left with the impression that such a book views the philosophical, historical, and! or theological problems as essentially indifferent to clinical, legal, and! or policy-making problems.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Philosophy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, USA

    Nora K. Bell

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Who Decides?

  • Book Subtitle: Conflicts of Rights in Health Care

  • Editors: Nora K. Bell

  • Series Title: Contemporary Issues in Biomedicine, Ethics, and Society

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5823-0

  • Publisher: Humana Totowa, NJ

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: HUMANA Press Inc. 1982

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-89603-034-3Published: 04 August 1982

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4612-5825-4Published: 14 December 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4612-5823-0Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 218

  • Topics: Theory of Medicine/Bioethics

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