Healthy Thoughts: European Perspectives on Health Care EthicsThis book, edited by a team of leading European bioethicists, is in all respects an innovative publication. As part of the core materials project of the European Ethics Network, this book collects European perspectives on health care ethics reflecting both the rich philosophical tradition and the broad interdisciplinary network in the field of European health care ethics. In the first part of the book on the physician-patient relationship, the authors present different views on the integration of patient autonomy in the relational structure of the medical profession. Here, the focus is on the reception of patient autonomy in the European context and on European alternatives for the radical understanding of patient autonomy. In the second part of this book, the contributions deal with the ethical problems of clinical research with patients and with the ethical values involved in human experimentation. In the third part of the book, the just organisation of the health care system and the consequent resource allocation are critically examined. With their common European background, the authors want to enrich and encourage the ongoing discussion on the physician-patient relationship, human experimentation and justice in health care from various perspectives and different points of departure. Therefore, this volume is suitable for the interested reader as well as for educational purposes. |
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
The PhysicianPatient Relationship A LatinEuropean Approach | 27 |
Historical Analysis of the Concept of Autonomy from a Ger | 39 |
Autonomy and Responsibility | 49 |
The PhysicianPatient Relationship A Hermeneutic Perspec | 69 |
Caring | 81 |
Epilogue | 103 |
Introduction | 109 |
Epilogue | 207 |
European Directive on Good Clinical Practice | 219 |
Human Use 2001 219 | 240 |
Who Will Decide? | 249 |
Health Care Needs and Distributive Justice Philosophical | 265 |
Economic Con | 299 |
Just Health Care The Case of Waiting Lists | 321 |
Are There Limits to Solidarity with the Elderly? | 329 |
Ethics of Experimentation on Human | 137 |
VIII | 171 |
The HIV Perinatal Transmission Studies and the Debate about | 189 |
Epilogue | 337 |
Contributors | 347 |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
access to health According action approach argument artificial feeding basic benefit bioethics caregivers carried clinical trial clinical-ethical competent concept concerned conflict context countries decision Declaration of Helsinki Denise Denise's disease doctor effective England Journal ethical problems Ethics Committee ethics of care European evaluation experiments feeding and hydration foetal tissue freedom grafts health care system Helsinki hospital human experimentation human subjects important individual informed consent institutions interpretation involved Journal of Medicine justice Katholieke Universiteit Leuven libertarian means medical ethics Member ment moral nurses organisation Parkinson's Disease particular person perspective philosophy physician physician-patient relationship placebo possible practice principle procedures professional protocol psychosurgery question randomisation rationing RCTs regarding relation research ethics research subjects respect responsibility risks role scientific situation social society solidarity specific therapeutic tion Transplantation treatment understanding utilitarianism values waiting lists World Medical Association