Ethics and Chronic Illness

ISBN-13: 9780367210205 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 242 str.

Tom Walker

Opis

This book provides an account of the ethics of chronic illness. Chronic illness has features problematise key distinctions that underlie much existing work in medical ethics including those between beneficence and autonomy, between treatment and prevention, and between the recipient and provider of treatment.

Recenzje

"The tone and depth of this volume perfectly suit its content. Walker approaches chronic care, even in its most practical aspects, from a carefully reasoned, slow-boiling, solidly constructed philosophical perspective. This matches the reflexive, slow-motion nature of chronic care, which does not ask for fast-paced executive decisions, but for a meditated navigation through long-term clinical and moral questions that keep returning, haunting practitioners and patients alike for their foreseeable future. Summing Up: Recommended" -- CHOICE

O autorze

Tom Walker is Senior Lecturer in Ethics and Director of the Centre for the Study of Risk and Inequality at Queen’s University Belfast, UK