Medical EthicsRobert M. Veatch Twelve contributors discuss critical issues affecting medical ethics. Topics include: the normative principles of medical ethics, concepts of health and disease, the physician-patient relationship, human experimentation, informed consent, genetics, ethical issues in organ transplantation, and moral |
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... maximize his or her own utility . Clearly there are many instances in the real world in which maximizing one's own ... maximize overall utility and yet be grossly unfair or unjust , violating the most fundamental rights of some ...
... maximize his or her own utility . Clearly there are many instances in the real world in which maximizing one's own ... maximize overall utility and yet be grossly unfair or unjust , violating the most fundamental rights of some ...
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... maximize gains . Instead , they are criticisms of attempts to use specific max- imizing techniques that either ignore or beg important ethical questions about the proper scope of maximizing reasoning and the appropriate weight which ...
... maximize gains . Instead , they are criticisms of attempts to use specific max- imizing techniques that either ignore or beg important ethical questions about the proper scope of maximizing reasoning and the appropriate weight which ...
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... maximize utility even though those rules do not direct individuals as individuals or as occupants of institutional positions to maximize utility in a case by case fashion . For example , it may be that a judicial system which maximizes ...
... maximize utility even though those rules do not direct individuals as individuals or as occupants of institutional positions to maximize utility in a case by case fashion . For example , it may be that a judicial system which maximizes ...
Contents
THE HISTORY OF MEDICAL ETHICAL SYSTEMS | 7 |
THE ROLE OF CODES | 19 |
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS | 26 |
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