Community as Healing: Pragmatist Ethics in Medical Encounters, by D. Micah Hester. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2001, 105 pp. 18.95

In Community as Healing, Micah Hester aspires to offer a bold alternative to the theoretical approach that has dominated bioethics since the 1970s. He begins by claiming that the concepts of individual patient autonomy portrayed in the well-known works of Tom Beauchamp and James Childress in Princip...

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Autore principale: Shelton, Wayne (Autore)
Tipo di documento: Elettronico Review
Lingua:Inglese
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Pubblicazione: Cambridge Univ. Press 2004
In: Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics
Anno: 2004, Volume: 13, Fascicolo: 2, Pagine: 207-210
Altre parole chiave:B Recensione
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Riepilogo:In Community as Healing, Micah Hester aspires to offer a bold alternative to the theoretical approach that has dominated bioethics since the 1970s. He begins by claiming that the concepts of individual patient autonomy portrayed in the well-known works of Tom Beauchamp and James Childress in Principles of Biomedical Ethics and H. Tristram Engelhardt in The Foundations of Bioethics are inadequate. As he states:
ISSN:1469-2147
Comprende:Enthalten in: Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1017/S0963180104002154