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Ethics in Medicine: Virtue, Vice and Medicine

ISBN: 978-0-7456-2569-0
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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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