1st Edition

Historical and Philosophical Perspectives on Biomedical Ethics From Paternalism to Autonomy?

172 Pages

by Routledge

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This title was first published in 2002: This volume discusses the subject of biomedical ethics. Various views, historical and contemporary, are discussed, with the editors using the contrasting concepts in the shift from paternalism to autonomy in 20th-century medicine as a heuristic tool for the critical study of ethics in medicine.As far as the evidence in this volume goes, paternalistic... Read more

Introduction, Andreas-Holger Maehle and Johanna Geyer-Kordesch; "honour and interests" - medical ethics and the British Medical Association, Andrew A.G. Morrice; the emergence of medical professional ethics in Germany, Andreas-Holger Maehle; health costs and the ethics of the German sickness insurance system, Lutz D.H. Sauerteig; problems of consent to surgical procedures and autopsies in 20th-century Germany, Cay-Rudiger Prull and Marianne Sinn; human research - from ethos to law, from national to international regulations, Ulrich Trohler; ethical aspects of life-saving and life-sustaining technologies, Bryan Jennett; autonomous agency and consent in the treatment of the terminally ill, Susan L. Lowe; the "Frankenstein" nature of biotechnology, David E. Cooper.