Who Decides? by Nora K Bell

Who Decides? by Nora K Bell

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.

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ISBN 13	9780896030343
ISBN 10	0896030342
Title	Who Decides?
Author	Nora K Bell
Series	Contemporary Issues In Biomedicine Ethics And Society
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Humana Press Inc.
Year published	1982-08-04
Number of pages	218
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