Care Ethics and Social Structures in Medicine

ISBN-13: 9780367000226 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 162 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.

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).