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Responsibility in Health Care

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  • © 1982

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Editors:
  1. George J. Agich

    1. Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Springfield, USA

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Part of the book series: Philosophy and Medicine (PHME, volume 12)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiii
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  2. Health Care Teams and the Physician-Patient Relationship

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. An Historical View of Health Care Teams

      • Theodore M. Brown
      Pages 3-21

    3. Once on Top, Now on Tap: American Physicians View their Relationships with Patients, 1920–1970

      • Guenter B. Risse
      Pages 23-49

  3. Authority and Responsibility in the Practice of Medicine

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 51-51
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    2. The Concept of Responsibility in Medicine

      • George J. Agich
      Pages 53-73

    3. Comments on “The Concept of Responsibility in Medicine”

      • Arthur F. Kohrman
      Pages 75-81

    4. Authority and the Profession of Medicine

      • Stanley M. Hauerwas
      Pages 83-104

    5. Power, Authority, and Rights in the Practice of Medicine

      • Richard E. Flathman
      Pages 105-125

    6. Medical Authority and Professional Medical Authority: The Nature of Authority in Medicine for Decisions by Lay Persons and Professionals

      • Robert M. Veatch
      Pages 127-137

  5. Legal and Political Responsibility in Health Care Matters

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 225-225
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    2. Legal Responsibility in Health Care: Whose Fault is it Anyway?

      • Peter C. Williams
      Pages 227-243

    3. Reaching Closure on Health-Related Controversies

      • Robert F. Rich
      Pages 245-259

    4. Responsibility and Public Policy in Health Care: Commentary on Essays by Williams and Rich

      • Bruce L. Miller
      Pages 261-275
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About this book

Medicine is a complex social institution which includes biomedical research, clinical practice, and the administration and organization of health care delivery. As such, it is amenable to analysis from a number of disciplines and directions. The present volume is composed of revised papers on the theme of "Responsibility in Health Care" presented at the Eleventh Trans­ Disciplinary Symposium on Philosophy and Medicine, which was held in Springfield, illinois on March 16-18, 1981. The collective focus of these essays is the clinical practice of medicine and the themes and issues related to questions of responsibility in that setting. Responsibility has three related dimensions which make it a suitable theme for an inquiry into clinical medicine: (a) an external dimension in legal and political analysis in which the State imposes penalties on individuals and groups and in which officials and governments are held accountable for policies; (b) an internal dimension in moral and ethical analysis in which individuals take into account the consequences of their actions and the criteria which bear upon their choices; and (c) a comprehensive dimension in social and cultural analysis in which values are ordered in the structure of a civilization ([8], p. 5). The title "Responsibility in Health Care" thus signifies a broad inquiry not only into the ethics of individual character and actions, but the moral foundations of the cultural, legal, political, and social context of health care generally.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Springfield, USA

    George J. Agich

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Responsibility in Health Care

  • Editors: George J. Agich

  • Series Title: Philosophy and Medicine

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-7831-7

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland 1982

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-1417-6Published: 31 October 1982

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-009-7833-1Published: 22 November 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-7831-7Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0376-7418

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-0080

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXIV, 288

  • Topics: Ethics

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