Care Ethics and Social Structures in Medicine

ISBN-13: 9781032094410 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 172 str.

Ruth E. Groenhout

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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.

O autorze

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).