Ethics and the Metaphysics of Medicine Reflections on Health and Beneficence

Name: Ethics and the Metaphysics of Medicine Reflections on Health and Beneficence
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ISBN: 9780262182386

ISBN-10: 0262182386

ISBN-13: 9780262182386

Edition: 2004

Authors: Kenneth A. Richman, Arthur L. Caplan, Glenn McGee

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Definitions of health and disease are of more than theoretical interest. Understanding what it means to be healthy has implications for choices in medical treatment, for ethically sound informed consent, and for accurate assessment of policies or programs. This deeper understanding can help us create more effective public policy for health and medicine. It is notable that such contentious legal initiatives as the Americans with Disability Act and the Patients' Bill of Rights fail to define adequately the medical terms on which their effectiveness depends. In Ethics and the Metaphysics of Medicine, Kenneth Richman develops an "embedded instrumentalist" theory of health and applies it to…

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List price: $29.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 6/18/2004
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 232
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Glenn McGee is assistant professor of bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of over 100 articles and books. He is the editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Bioethics, and he writes a monthly column for MS-NBC Online. He lives in Philadelphia, PA.



Series Foreword


Preface and Acknowledgments



Theories of Health



The Question of Normativity



A Proposal: Embedded Instrumentalism



Health and Ethics



Beneficence and Recommendations for Treatment



Autonomy and Parentalism



Conclusion to Part II



Clinical Connections



Advance Directives



Talking to Patients, Training Physicians



Conclusion: What Every Doctor Should Know about Metaphysics


Notes


References


Index