Author : Laurie Zoloth
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 26,39 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780807848289
The last several years have seen a sharpening of debate in the United States regarding the problem of steadily increasing medical expenditures, as well as inflation in health care costs, a scarcity of health care resources, and a lack of access for a grow
Author : Laurie Zoloth
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 45,15 MB
Release : 2005-10-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0807876208
The last several years have seen a sharpening of debate in the United States regarding the problem of steadily increasing medical expenditures, as well as inflation in health care costs, a scarcity of health care resources, and a lack of access for a growing number of people in the national health care system. Some observers suggest that we in fact face two crises: the crisis of scarce resources and the crisis of inadequate language in the discourse of ethics for framing a response. Laurie Zoloth offers a bold claim: to renew our chances of achieving social justice, she argues, we must turn to the Jewish tradition. That tradition envisions an ethics of conversational encounter that is deeply social and profoundly public, as well as offering resources for recovering a language of community that addresses the issues raised by the health care allocation debate. Constructing her argument around a careful analysis of selected classic and postmodern Jewish texts and a thoughtful examination of the Oregon health care reform plan, Zoloth encourages a radical rethinking of what has become familiar ground in debates on social justice.
Author : Wesley J. Smith
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 33,57 MB
Release : 2010-10-06
Category : Medical
ISBN : 145877841X
When his teenaged son Christopher, brain-damaged in an auto accident, developed a 106-degree fever following weeks of unconsciousness, John Campbell asked the attending physician for help. The doctor refused. Why bother? The boy's life was effectively over. Campbell refused to accept this verdict. He demanded treatment and threatened legal action. The doctor finally relented. With treatment, Christopher's temperature subsided almost immediately. Soon afterwards he regained consciousness and today he is learning to walk again. This story is one of many Wesley Smith recounts in his groundbreaking new book, The Culture of Death. Smith believes that American medicine ''is changing from a system based on the sanctity of human life into a starkly utilitarian model in which the medically defenseless are seen as having not just a 'right' but a 'duty' to die.'' Going behind the current scenes of our health care system, he shows how doctors withdraw desired care based on Futile Care Theory rather than provide it as required by the Hippocratic Oath. And how ''bioethicists'' influence policy by considering questions such as whether organs may be harvested from the terminally ill and disabled. This is a passionate, yet coolly reasoned book about the current crisis in medical ethics by an author who has made ''the new thanatology'' his consuming interest.
Author : M. Therese Lysaught
Publisher : Liturgical Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 47,74 MB
Release : 2018-11-16
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0814684793
Catholic health care is one of the key places where the church lives Catholic social teaching (CST). Yet the individualistic methodology of Catholic bioethics inherited from the manualist tradition has yet to incorporate this critical component of the Catholic moral tradition. Informed by the places where Catholic health care intersects with the diverse societal injustices embodied in the patients it encounters, this book brings the lens of CST to bear on Catholic health care, illuminating a new spectrum of ethical issues and practical recommendations from social determinants of health, immigration, diversity and disparities, behavioral health, gender-questioning patients, and environmental and global health issues.
Author : C. Cordner
Publisher : Springer
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 19,3 MB
Release : 2001-12-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0230509177
This book shows how our moral concepts are nourished by awe, reverence and various forms of love. These ways of encountering the world and other human beings inform our sense of good and evil, of justice and injustice, of obligation, of fidelity and betrayal, and of many virtues and vices. In ways moral philosophy commonly misses, this book shows moral understanding is broadened and deepened by what is disclosed only in these forms of encounter.
Author : Mescher, Marcus
Publisher : Orbis Books
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 20,39 MB
Release : 2020-03-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1608338401
"The author provides an ethical framework for the "culture of encounter" that Pope Francis calls us to build"--
Author : Sheri Smith
Publisher : Charles C Thomas Publisher
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 13,9 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0398078092
In this new edition, the text has been revised to reflect new developments in nursing ethics."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Patricia Backlar
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 22,52 MB
Release : 2002-01-31
Category : Law
ISBN : 0306467046
This volume examines everyday ethical issues that clinicians encounter as they go about their work caring for people who have severe and persistent mental disorders. It prompts and provokes readers to recognize, to analyze, to reflect upon, and to respond to the range of commonplace ethical concerns that arise in community mental health care practice.
Author : Suzanne Shale
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 33,62 MB
Release : 2011-12-22
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781107006157
What are the moral challenges that confront doctors as they manage healthcare institutions? How do we build trust in medical organisations? How do we conceptualize moral action? Based on accounts given by senior doctors from organisations throughout the UK, this book discusses the issues medical leaders find most troubling and identifies the moral tensions they face. Moral Leadership in Medicine examines in detail how doctors protect patients' interests, implement morally controversial change, manage colleagues in difficulty and rebuild trust after serious medical harm. The book discusses how leaders develop moral narratives to make sense of these situations, how they behave while balancing conflicting moral goals and how they influence those around them to do the right thing in difficult circumstances. Based on empirical ethical analysis, this volume is essential reading for clinicians in leadership roles and students and academics in the fields of healthcare management, medical law and healthcare ethics.
Author : Institute of Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 45,57 MB
Release : 1986-01-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0309036437
"[This book is] the most authoritative assessment of the advantages and disadvantages of recent trends toward the commercialization of health care," says Robert Pear of The New York Times. This major study by the Institute of Medicine examines virtually all aspects of for-profit health care in the United States, including the quality and availability of health care, the cost of medical care, access to financial capital, implications for education and research, and the fiduciary role of the physician. In addition to the report, the book contains 15 papers by experts in the field of for-profit health care covering a broad range of topicsâ€"from trends in the growth of major investor-owned hospital companies to the ethical issues in for-profit health care. "The report makes a lasting contribution to the health policy literature." â€"Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law.
