Ethics and Chronic Illness

ISBN-13: 9781032093017 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 252 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

Spis treści

 

1. The Problem: Ethics and Chronic Illness

2. Working Out What Will Benefit Patients

3. Is an Informed Patient’s Choice Good Evidence that the Option Chosen Is What Is Best for Him?

4. ‘It Should Be Up to the Patient What Happens to Her’

5. Consent and the Treatment of Chronic Illness

6. How to Respond to Non-Adherence

7. Broadening Our Vision: The Role of Families and Others

8. Changes Over Time

9. Conclusion

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