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

Title: Healthy respect : ethics in health care / R.S. Downie and K.C. Calman ; with a contribution from Ruth A.K. Schröck ; foreword by Sir Malcolm Macnaughton.
Author: Downie, R. S. (Robert Silcock)
Publication: Oxford ; Boston : Oxford University Press, 1994.

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xviii, 291 pages; 21 cm

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

Contents

1. Knowledge, skills and values -- 2. Scientific understanding and decision-making -- 3. Moral values -- 4. Autonomy and respect -- 5. Embryos, persons, and other human beings -- 6. Individual and group responsibility -- 7. Moral conflict and moral deficiency -- 8. Alternative views of human nature -- 9. Arguments -- 10. Learning and teaching moral values -- 11. Making contact and making decisions -- 12. Working together -- 13. A question of living -- 14. Quality of life -- 15. Public health: the moral issues -- 16. A question of dying -- 17. A question of economics -- 18. Moral aspects of research -- 19. Quality in health care -- 20. Codes of ethics.

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0192624091 :
0192624083 (pbk.) :

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93039946

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