1st Edition

The Limits of Medical Paternalism

By Heta Häyry Copyright 1991
    218 Pages
    by Routledge

    218 Pages
    by Routledge

    The Limits of Medical Paternalism defines and morally assesses paternalistic interventions, especially in the context of modern medicine and health care, particular emphasis is given to the analysis of the conceptual background of the paternalism issue. In this book an anti-paternalistic view is presented and defended.

    Preface, 1. THE PROBLEM OF PATERNALISM IN MODERN MEDICINE AND HEALTH CARE, 2. FREEDOM, CONSTRAINT AND THE VALUE OF AUTONOMY, 3. PATERNALISM, COERCION AND CONSTRAINT, 4. THE UTILITARIAN CASE FOR STRONG PATERNALISM, 5. MORALS AND SOCIETY, 6. APPEALS TO RATIONALITY: THE VARIETIES OF PRUDENTIALISM, 7. THE LIMITS OF MEDICAL PATERNALISM, Notes, Bibliography, Name index

    Biography

    Heta Häyry

    'Let me say at once that this is a fascinating and important book, which should be read by all clinicians from the most senior to the most junior, and by all medical students' - David Short, Journal of the Christian Medical Fellowship