"Risk and Luck in Medical Ethics" examines the 'moral luck' paradox in greater
detail, relating it to Kantian, consequentialist, and virtue-based
approaches to ethics. Dickenson applies the paradoxes of risk and
luck to medical ethics, including timely discussion of risk and luck in the
allocation of scarce health care resources, informed consent to treatment,
decisions about withholding life-sustaining treatment, psychiatry,
reproductive ethics, genetic testing, and medical research and
evidence-based medicine.
The book concludes with an examination of the relevance of risk and luck in
a medical context to the study of global ethics. If risk and luck are taken
seriously, it would seem to follow that we cannot develop any definite moral
standards at all, that we are doomed to moral relativism. However, Dickenson
offers strong counter-arguments to this view that enable us to think in
terms of universal standards for judging ethical systems. This claim has
direct practical relevance for practitioners as well as philosophers.
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"Risk and Luck in Medical Ethics" examines the 'moral luck' paradox in greater
detail, relating it to Kantian, consequentialist, and virtue-based
approaches to ethics. Dickenson applies the paradoxes of risk and
luck to medical ethics, including timely discussion of risk and luck in the
allocation of scarce health care resources, informed consent to treatment,
decisions about withholding life-sustaining treatment, psychiatry,
reproductive ethics, genetic testing, and medical research and
evidence-based medicine.
The book concludes with an examination of the relevance of risk and luck in
a medical context to the study of global ethics. If risk and luck are taken
seriously, it would seem to follow that we cannot develop any definite moral
standards at all, that we are doomed to moral relativism. However, Dickenson
offers strong counter-arguments to this view that enable us to think in
terms of universal standards for judging ethical systems. This claim has
direct practical relevance for practitioners as well as philosophers.
Imprint | Polity Press |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Release date | November 2002 |
Availability | Expected to ship within 7 - 13 working days |
First published | 2003 |
Authors | D Dickenson |
Dimensions | 235 x 154 x 26mm (L x W x T) |
Format | Hardcover |
Pages | 280 |
Edition | 2 Rev Ed |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-7456-2145-6 |
Barcode | 9780745621456 |
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LSN | 0-7456-2145-7 |