Ethics in Medicine: Virtue, Vice and MedicineISBN: 978-0-7456-2569-0
Paperback
248 pages
February 2006, Polity
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Preface
Chapter One: Virtues and Vices
Chapter Two: Justice – A Problematic Virtue?
Chapter Three: Benevolence – A Problematic Virtue?
Chapter Four: Benevolence – The Only Virtue?
Chapter Five: The Dictates of Conscience
Chapter Six: The Duty to Obtain Consent
Chapter Seven: ‘First, Do No Harm'
Chapter Eight: Duties to Give, and Rights to Get, Health Care
Chapter Nine: Distributive Justice in Health Care
Chapter Ten: Abortion
Chapter Eleven: Suicide, Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia
Chapter Twelve: Killing and Letting Die
Chapter Thirteen: Patients’ Deaths and Doctors’ Decisions
Chapter Fourteen: Moral Issues in Reproductive Medicine
Chapter Fifteen: In Retrospect
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