Principles of Health Care Ethics (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780470027134)

Edited by four leading members of the new generation of medical and healthcare ethicists working in the UK, respected worldwide for their work in medical ethics, Principles of Health Care Ethics, Second Edition is a standard resource for students, professionals, and academics wishing to understand current and future issues in healthcare ethics.

With a distinguished international panel of contributors working at the leading edge of academia, this volume presents a comprehensive guide to the field, with state of the art introductions to the wide range of topics in modern healthcare ethics, from consent to human rights, from utilitarianism to feminism, from the doctor-patient relationship to xenotransplantation.

This volume is the Second Edition of the highly successful work edited by Professor Raanan Gillon, Emeritus Professor of Medical Ethics at Imperial College London and former editor of the Journal of Medical Ethics, the leading journal in this field.

Developments from the First Edition include: The focus on 'Four Principles Method' is relaxed to cover more different methods in health care ethics. More material on new medical technologies is included, the coverage of issues on the doctor/patient relationship is expanded, and material on ethics and public health is brought together into a new section.

Author: Richard Edmund Ashcroft
ISBN-10: 0470027134
ISBN-13: 9780470027134
Publisher: Wiley
Language: English
Published: 06/01/2007
Pages: 864
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 4.41lbs
Size: 9.83h x 7.76w x 2.09d

Review Citation(s):
Scitech Book News 12/01/2007 pg. 70