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Bioethics in a liberal society

Author: M J Charlesworth
Publisher: New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1993.
Edition/Format:  Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"Ethical issues in health care, medicine and biotechnology are often discussed in the abstract, without reference to the social or political context from which they arise. We live in a liberal, democratic, multicultural society where ideally the values of personal liberty and autonomy are paramount. In such a society the state, through the law, should not be concerned with telling people how they should live their  Read more...
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: M J Charlesworth
ISBN: 0521445035 9780521445030 0521449529 9780521449526
OCLC Number: 27431082
Description: 172 p. ; 22 cm.
Contents: Autonomy and the liberal ideal --
Idea of autonomy --
Liberal society --
Critics of the liberal ideal --
Ending life --
Ethics of suicide --
Moral right to die? --
Decriminalising suicide --
Multicultural attitudes to death and dying --
Choosing for those who cannot choose for themselves --
Quality of life --
Liberal society and the right to die --
Death and the hospital --
Beginning life --
New ways of birth and family formation --
Bearing a child for another --
Questions about surrogacy --
Consequences of surrogacy --
Feminist views on reproductive technology --
Third wave feminist views --
Social and legal implications --
Distributing health-care resources --
Problem of scarce resources --
Utilitarian approaches --
Health system in a liberal society --
Patient and physician --
Health-care resource allocations: four examples --
Reaching community consensus --
Two forms of community consultation --
Limits to planning --
Consensus in a liberal society --
Liberal idea and bioethical realities --
Ethical agreement in a multicultural society.
Responsibility: Max Charlesworth.
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"Ethical issues in health care, medicine and biotechnology are often discussed in the abstract, without reference to the social or political context from which they arise. We live in a liberal, democratic, multicultural society where ideally the values of personal liberty and autonomy are paramount. In such a society the state, through the law, should not be concerned with telling people how they should live their lives. In spite of this, many of the ethical stances taken in liberal societies are paternalistic and authoritarian." "This readable and balanced book is an original discussion of contemporary issues in bioethics. Max Charlesworth argues that as there can be no public consensus on a set of core values - liberal societies accept a variety of religious, non-religious, political and moral stances - there should be a plurality of ethical stances as well. On this basis he discusses issues such as the ending of human life: suicide, the 'right to die', euthanasia; new reproductive technologies such as in vitro fertilisation and alternative ways of reproduction such as surrogacy; and ethical questions concerned with the distribution of limited health-care resources, particularly hospital care." "This discussion of crucial bioethical issues will be read by people in all areas where medical ethics are considered - nursing, medicine, health administration, sociology, philosophy and religious studies - as well as by general readers interested in some of the most compelling ethical questions of our time."--BOOK JACKET.

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