EAN: 9783319179599

NEW PERSPECTIVES ON PATERNALISM AND HEALTH CARE...

This work sets the stage regarding debates about paternalism and health care for years to come.
The anthology is organized around four parts: i) The concept of paternalism and theoretical
issues regarding the idea of anti-paternalism  ii) strategies for justifying different forms of
paternalism  iii) paternalism in psychiatry and psychotherapy  iv) paternalism and public
health  and v) paternalism and reproductive medicine. Medical paternalism was arguably one of
the main drivers of debates in medical ethics and has led to a wide acknowledgement of the
value of patient autonomy. However  more recent developments in health care  such as the
increasing significance of public health measures and the commercialization of medical services
have led to new social circumstances and hence to the need to rethink issues regarding
paternalism. This work provides an invaluable source for many scholars and practitioners  since
it deals in new and original ways with one of the main and oldest issue in health care ethics.

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