For the Patient's Good: The Restoration of Beneficence in Health Care

ISBN-13: 9780195043198 / Angielski / Twarda / 1988 / 256 str.

Edmund D. Pellegrino

Spis treści

I. THE DELINEATION OF BENEFICENCE: Paternalism, autonomy and beneficence in the patient-doctor relationship; Limitations of autonomy and paternalism - toward a model of beneficence; Why good rather than rights; Beneficence in trust. II. THE IMPLICATIONS OF BENEFICENCE FOR THE DOCTOR AND THE PATIENT: Health and ethical norms; The good of the patient; Quality of life judgements and medical indications; The good patient; The good physician. III. THE CONSEQUENCES OF BENEFICENCE: The common devotion - a reconstruction of medical ethics; making decisions under uncertainty; Making decisions for incompetent patients; The role of physicians, families and other surrogates in decisions about incompetent patients; The physician as gatekeeper; Beneficence-in-trust - how it is applied; A medical oath for the post hippocratic era.