附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-293) and index.
Ch. 1. Bioethics: Critique and Reorientation -- Ch. 2. Moral Strangers -- Ch. 3. Black-Boxes -- Ch. 4. Sympathy -- Ch. 5. In the Face of Suffering -- Ch. 6. Solitarity or Solidarity? -- Ch. 7. The Careful Person -- Ch. 8. For the Patient's Good.
摘要:In Contemporary health care ethics, respect for patient autonomy is often considered the primary ethical principle, trumping all others. Many health care ethicists and clinicians alike presume that it is impossible to make judgments about patients' best interests. Patients and their health care providers meet as moral strangers. Hence, the conventional wisdom is that clinical interactions should be based on a contractual relationship between two respectful but estranged people." "Dr. Jos Welie challenges this moral stranger metaphor and attempts to restore the phenomenon of intersubjective, benevolent care. He presents a philosophical-anthropological foundation for clinical ethics in which such notions as suffering, sympathy and solidarity are central. -- Provided by publisher.
