Critiquing many areas of medical practice and research whilst making constructive suggestions about medical education, this book extends the scope of medical ethics beyond sole concern with regulation.
Illustrating some humanistic ways of understanding patients, this volume explores the connections between medical ethics, healthcare and subjects, such as philosophy, literature, creative writing and medical history and how they can affect the attitudes of doctors towards patients and the perceptions of medicine, health and disease which have become part of contemporary culture.
The authors examine a range of ideas in medical practice and research, including:
An excellent text for undergraduate and postgraduate students of law, medical ethics and medical healthcare law, Bioethics and the Humanities shows the real ethical achievements, problems and half-truths of contemporary medicine.
| ISBN: | 9781844720538 |
| Publication date: | 25th January 2007 |
| Author: | R S Downie, Jane Macnaughton |
| Publisher: | Routledge-Cavendish an imprint of Taylor & Francis |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 188 pages |
| Series: | Biomedical Law and Ethics Library |
| Genres: |
Medical and healthcare law Ethics and moral philosophy Biography, Literature and Literary studies |
Critiquing many areas of medical practice and research whilst making constructive suggestions about medical education, this book extends the scope of medical ethics beyond sole concern with regulation.Illustrating some humanistic ways of understanding patients, this volume explores the connections between medical ethics, healthcare and subjects, such as philosophy, literature, creative writing and medical history and how they can affect the attitudes of doctors towards patients and the perceptions of medicine, health and disease which have become part of contemporary culture. The authors examine a range of ideas in medical practice and research, including: the idea that patient status or the doctor/patient relationship can be understood via quantitative scales the illusion fostered by medical ethics that doctors, unlike those in other professions, are uniquely beneficent and indeed altruistic.
Bioethics and the Humanities features in the following genres: Medical and healthcare law, Ethics and moral philosophy, Biography, Literature and Literary studies
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Bioethics and the Humanities was written by R S Downie, Jane Macnaughton and published by Routledge-Cavendish an imprint of Taylor & Francis
Bioethics and the Humanities has 188 pages
Yes it is part of Biomedical Law and Ethics Library series
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