Risk and Luck in Medical EthicsISBN: 978-0-7456-2146-3
Paperback
280 pages
January 2003, Polity
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“Although risk is widely discussed in the medical ethics
literature, luck has been conspicuously absent. This book seeks to
fill this void by drawing on the extensive treatments of luck by
philosophers and applying them to issues in medicine and health
care…the book provides a useful framework for analyzing
issues in medical ethics.”
John R. Williams, The Heythop Journal
"Dickenson's book is truly groundbreaking. By viewing issues of
applied ethics through the unusual prism of moral luck, she throws
an unexpected light on familiar themes in medical ethics, and by
bringing the problem of moral luck into relatively unchartered
areas, she goes some way in rectifying the neglect into which this
important problem has fallen in recent years."
Stuart Rennie, Ethical Perspectives