Principles of biomedical ethics / (Record no. 3645)

MARC details
010 ## -
-- 93024390
020 ## -
-- 0195085361 (acidfree paper)
020 ## -
-- 019508537X (pbk.)
040 ## -
-- DLC
-- eng
-- DLC
-- LRW
-- TOM
-- TMV
-- NLM
-- UKM
-- OCL
049 ## -
-- CLAM
050 00 -
-- R724
-- .B36 1994
100 1# -
-- Beauchamp, Tom L.
245 10 -
-- Principles of biomedical ethics /
-- Tom L. Beauchamp, James F. Childress.
250 ## -
-- Fourth edition.
264 #1 -
-- New York :
-- Oxford University Press,
-- 1994.
300 ## -
-- x, 546 pages ;
-- 24 cm.
336 ## -
-- text
-- txt
-- rdacontent.
337 ## -
-- unmediated
-- n
-- rdamedia.
338 ## -
-- volume
-- nc
-- rdacarrier.
504 ## -
-- Includes bibliographical references and index.
505 0# -
-- Morality and moral justification -- Morality and ethical theory -- Moral dilemmas -- Method, justification and truth -- Specifying and balancing principles -- Place of principles -- Types of ethical theory -- Criteria for theory construction -- Utilitarianism: consequence-based theory -- Kantianism: obligation-based theory --Character ethics: virtue-based theory -- Liberal individualism: rights-based theory -- Communitarianism: community-based theory -- Ethics of care: relationship-based accounts -- Casuistry: case-based reasoning -- Principle-based, common-morality theories -- Convergence across theories -- Respect for autonomy -- Concept of autonomy -- Competence and autonomous choice -- Meaning and justification of informed consent --Disclosure -- Understanding -- Voluntariness -- Framework of standards for surrogate decisionmaking -- Nonmaleficence -- Concept of nonmaleficence -- Traditional distinctions and rules governing nontreatment -- Optional treatments and obligatory treatments -- Killing and letting die --Justification of assistance in dying.
505 0# -
-- (cont) Decisionmaking for incompetent patients -- Beneficence -- Concept of beneficence -- Obligatory and ideal beneficence -- Paternalism: conflicts between beneficence and autonomy -- Balancing benefits, costs and risks -- Value and quality of life -- Justice -- Concept of justice -- Theories of justice -- Fair opportunity -- Right to a decent minimum of health care -- Allocation of health care resources -- Rationing through priorities in the health care budget -- Rationing scarce treatments to patients -- Professional-patient relationships -- Veracity -- Privacy --Confidentiality -- Fidelity -- Dual roles of physician and investigator -- Virtues and ideals in professional life -- Virtues in professional roles -- Four focal virtues -- Conscientiousness -- Moral ideals -- Moral excellence -- Cases in biomedical ethics.
650 #0 -
-- Medical ethics.
700 1# -
-- Childress, James F.
942 ## -
-- ddc
-- BOOKS
999 ## -
-- 3645
-- 3645

No items available.

© KU, 2024. All rights reserved.
KU Main Library Implemented and Customized by KU Library Staff
Contact : library@ku.ac.tz Mobile :
Visitor Count:

Powered by Koha