
The Hackett Introduction to Medical Ethics
A Guide for Students, Clinicians, and Ethics Committees
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The Hackett Introduction to Medical Ethics
A Guide for Students, Clinicians, and Ethics Committees
About this book
The Hackett?Introduction to Medical Ethics addresses key debates and analyzes prominent ethical perspectives on clinical medicine, healthcare policy, and human experimentation. Using numerous examples and case studies, Altman and Coe apply value theory to contemporary medical practice and trace the repercussions for such philosophical issues as autonomy, death, and justice. The book invites a range of readers to investigate urgent moral questions at the intersection of the body and social institutions.Free online resources to support The Hackett Introduction to Medical Ethics will be available on the book title page at www.hackettpublishing.com in early fall 2025. Resources will include PowerPoint lecture slides, a sample syllabus, links to case studies (to help facilitate small group discussion and apply theoretical concepts), and more.
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Moral Reasoning in a Medical Context
- Chapter 2: Collective Responsibility in Medicine
- Chapter 3: Paternalism and Patient Autonomy
- Chapter 4: Clinicians’ Obligations to Patients and Themselves
- Chapter 5: The Ethics and Legality of Abortion
- Chapter 6: Pregnancy and Reproductive Technologies
- Chapter 7: Advance Directives and Decision-Making for Incapacitated Patients
- Chapter 8: Medical Aid in Dying
- Chapter 9: Healthcare and Social Justice
- Chapter 10: Allocating Scarce Medical Resources
- Chapter 11: Racial Disparities in Healthcare
- Chapter 12: Pediatric Ethics
- Chapter 13: Nursing Ethics
- Chapter 14: Experimentation on Human Subjects
- Conclusion: Reflective Equilibrium, between Medicine and Philosophy
- Index
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