Like many recent books about medical ethics, Rethinking Health Care Ethics offers a history
of the field's evolution. But unlike philosophers' accounts, which tend to paint a bright picture …

We will argue here that after more than 30 years of talk, theory, and clinical practice, we
bioethicists still know far too little about what patients, subjects, and healthcare professionals …

​ The goal of this open access book is to develop an approach to clinical health care ethics
that is more accessible to, and usable by, health professionals than the now-dominant …

Focusing on an area of growing concern amongst academics and clinicions, and combining
analysis with qualitative interview data, this text provides a thorough study of the ethical …

The bioethics movement did not arise and expand in a vacuum. As discussed in this chapter,
advances within medicine were creating a need for ethical issues to be identified and …

What is bioethics? Who is a bioethicist? Who is a health care ethics consultant or clinical
ethics consultant? There are no straightforward answers to such questions. Indeed, the …

Page 1 HEALTH CARE ETHICS Critical Issues for the 21st Century John F. Monagle David C.
Thomasma Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 HEALTH CARE ETHICS Critical Issues for the 21st …

Empirical research is relevant for bioethics in that it can make clear what normative views
practitioners endorse, and thus provide a basis for interaction between ethicists and …

The ethical obligations of those who work for health are as old as the health professions
themselves; indeed, the commitment to place the interests of clients above all else is one of …

The main object of criticism of present-day medical ethics is the standard view of the
relationship between theory and practice. Medical ethics is more than the application of …