Ruth E. Groenhout

Care Ethics and Social Structures in Medicine

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 172
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. November 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 409g
• ISBN-13: 9780367000226
• ISBN-10: 0367000229
• Artikelnr.: 54577164

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Care and social structures
Chapter One: Care ethics and the practice of medicine
Chapter Two: Medical knowledge: From clinical judgement to evidence-based
practice
Chapter Three: Public health and free markets
Chapter Four: Care and the technological imperative
Chapter Five: Authority and power in medicine
Chapter Six: Care, the ends of medicine, and the end of life.