Overview
- Collates some of the best new material on paternalism and health care
- Combines articles by established and renowned academics with papers by the next generation of paternalism scholars
- Sets the stage regarding debates about paternalism and health care for years to come
Part of the book series: Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy (LOET, volume 35)
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Paternalism and Anti-paternalism: Conceptual and Theoretical Issues
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Justifying and Rejecting Paternalism
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Paternalism in Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
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Paternalism and Public Health
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About this book
This work sets the stage regarding debates about paternalism and health care for years to come. The anthology is organized around four parts: i) The concept of paternalism and theoretical issues regarding the idea of anti-paternalism, ii) strategies for justifying different forms of paternalism, iii) paternalism in psychiatry and psychotherapy, iv) paternalism and public health, and v) paternalism and reproductive medicine. Medical paternalism was arguably one of the main drivers of debates in medical ethics and has led to a wide acknowledgement of the value of patient autonomy. However, more recent developments in health care, such as the increasing significance of public health measures and the commercialization of medical services, have led to new social circumstances and hence to the need to rethink issues regarding paternalism. This work provides an invaluable source for many scholars and practitioners, since it deals in new and original ways with one of the main and oldest issue in health care ethics.​
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: New Perspectives on Paternalism and Health Care
Editors: Thomas Schramme
Series Title: Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17960-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-17959-9Published: 24 June 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-35473-6Published: 09 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-17960-5Published: 04 June 2015
Series ISSN: 1387-6678
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0323
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 299
Topics: Ethics, Theory of Medicine/Bioethics