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The Moral Development of Health Professionals Rational Decisionmaking in Health Care Ethics
Bertram Bandman
Book Code: T259
ISBN: 0-86569-259-9
ISBN-13: 978-0-86569-259-6
232 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 8/30/2003
List Price: $86.95 (UK Sterling Price: £49.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Ebook
Trim Size: 6 1/8 X 9 1/4
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Description: A central challenge motivates this work: How, if at all, can philosophical ethics help in the moral development of health professionals? Bandman's three-part response is to argue, first, that there are justifiable answers to questions in health care ethics. To support this idea, he singles out a trilogy of related health care rights that are justifiably held by health consumers and for which health providers are responsible. These include rights to respect, to receive and to refuse treatment. These are vital to the principle of informed consent and to patient and provider autonomy. Secondly, the functioning of these health care rights depends on the ongoing cultivation and habitual practice of relevant virtues, such as dedicated and trained intelligence, practical wisdom, responsibility, caring and integrity. Thirdly, Bandman tries to show how health care ethics makes use of the dynamic interplay between signficant and relevant cases, historical and current, real and imaginary along with recognition of laws, customs, conventions and rules; together with philosophical theories of morality. An underlying theme of this book is the role of conditionals in health care ethics. The aim of Bandman's work is to examine conditions and opportunities that promote the moral development of health professionals. Moral rights and virtues, comprising standards, can be taught and learned, known, understood and accepted. These standards comprise justifiable principles for effectively guiding the conduct of health professionals. Rights and virtues help differentiate right from wrong decisions in health care ethics; and thereby provide an appropriate basis for the moral development of health professionals.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • The Role of Rights and Virtues in Justifying Health Care Values
  • How Can Philosophical Ethics Contribute to the Moral Development of Health Care Professionals?
  • Moral and Intellectual Virtues in the Justification of Health Care Values
  • The Role of Moral and Intellectual Rights in Health Care Ethics
  • Imparting Justifiable Health Care Values and Beliefs
  • The Teaching and Learning of Justifiable Health Care Values
  • Knowledge and Understanding
  • The Role of Beliefs in Justifying Health Care Values
  • Deciding to Act: From Deliberation to Justifiable Intervention
  • Justifiable Health Care Values in the Moral Development of Health Care Professionals: Deliberation, Justification, and Intervention
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index
LC Card Number: 2003042091
LCC Class: R724
Dewey Class: 174
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