172 Pages
by
Routledge
170 Pages
by
Routledge
170 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book examines the central structures in medicine—medical knowledge, economics, technological innovation, and medical authority—from the perspective of an ethics of care. The author analyzes each of these structures in detail before considering the challenges they present to end of life care. The perspective of an ethics of care allows for a careful focus on how these structures affect the... Read more
Introduction: Care and social structures
Chapter One: Care ethics and the practice of medicine
Chapter Two: Medical knowledge: From clinical judgement to evidence-based practice
Chapter Three: Public health and free markets
Chapter Four: Care and the technological imperative
Chapter Five: Authority and power in medicine
Chapter Six: Care, the ends of medicine, and the end of life.
Biography
Ruth E. Groenhout is the Distinguished Professor of Healthcare Ethics at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA. She is the author of Connected Lives: Human Nature and an Ethics of Care (2004) and co-editor of Philosophy, Feminism, and Faith (2003).
