Research Catalog

Title

Healthy respect : ethics in health care / R.S. Downie, K.C. Calman ; with a contribution from Ruth A.K. Schröck ; foreword by Sir Malcolm Macnaughton.

Author

Downie, R. S. (Robert Silcock)

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1994.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Calman, Kenneth C. (Kenneth Charles)
• Schröck, Ruth A. K.

Description

xviii, 291 p.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Oxford medical publications

Subject

• Medical ethics

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [282]-285) and index.

Contents

• Knowledge, skills and values -- Scientific understanding and decision-making -- Moral values -- Autonomy and respect -- Embryos, persons and other human beings -- Individual and group responsibility -- Moral conflict and moral deficiency -- Alternative views of human nature -- Arguments -- Learning and teaching moral values -- Making contact and making decisions -- Working together -- Question of living -- Quality of life -- Public health: the moral issues -- Question of dying -- Question of economics -- Moral aspects of research.
• Quality in health care -- Code of ethics.

Call Number

JFD 96-1825

ISBN

• 0192624091 (hbk.)
• 0192624083 (pbk.)

LCCN

93039946 //r95

OCLC

29182267

Author

Downie, R. S. (Robert Silcock)

Title

Healthy respect : ethics in health care / R.S. Downie, K.C. Calman ; with a contribution from Ruth A.K. Schröck ; foreword by Sir Malcolm Macnaughton.

Imprint

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1994.

Edition

2nd ed.

Series

Oxford medical publications

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. [282]-285) and index.

Added Author

Calman, Kenneth C. (Kenneth Charles)

Schröck, Ruth A. K.

Research Call Number

JFD 96-1825