دانلود کتاب Ethics and Chronic Illness

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Cover
Half Title
Series
Title
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Contents
Preface
1 The Problem: Ethics and Chronic Illness
1.1 Introduction
1.2 What Makes Chronic Illness Different?
1.3 The Importance of ‘When?’
1.4 Choosing
1.5 Acting
1.6 Helping Others Act
1.7 Advising and Preventing
1.8 Conclusion
2 Working Out What Will Benefit Patients
2.1 Introduction: The Epistemic Argument
2.2 What Is It Exactly That the Healthcare Professional Is Attempting to Determine?
2.3 Should Healthcare Professionals Always Use the Most Reliable Methods?
2.4 Interim Conclusion
3 Is an Informed Patient’s Choice Good Evidence That the Option Chosen Is What Is Best for Him?
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Where Patient Involvement Is Not Needed to Determine What Is Best for the Patient
3.3 How Are Patients Making Decisions When Asked to Make Them?
3.4 The Problem of Risk and Uncertainty
3.5 Conclusion
4 ‘It should be up to the patient what happens to her’
4.1 Introduction
4.2 The Capacity to Choose and the Value of Choice
4.3 Choice and the Autonomous Life
4.4 The Symbolic Value of Choice
4.5 Conclusion
5 Consent and the Treatment of Chronic Illness
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Regulatory Consent
5.3 When Is Non-Regulatory Consent Needed and Who Is It Needed From?
5.4 The Constitutive Rules for Non-Regulatory Consent and What They Mean for Healthcare Professionals’ Obligations
5.5 Conclusion
6 How to Respond to Non-Adherence
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Clarifying the Benefits of Treatment for Chronic Illness
6.3 Two Reasons for Non-adherence
6.4 Is Intervention in the Face of Non-Adherence Permissible?
6.5 Patient Responsibility and the Obligations of Healthcare Professionals
6.6 Conclusion
7 Broadening Our Vision: The Role of Families and Others
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Other People as Helpers or Obstacles
7.3 Privacy and Confidentiality
7.4 Conclusion
8 Changes Over Time
8.1 Introduction
8.2 When What Healthcare Professionals Can Do Changes
8.3 When the Patient’s World Changes
8.4 When the Patient Plans to Do Something Different
8.5 Conclusion
9 Conclusion
References
Index