Ethics and the Metaphysics of Medicine

Author: Kenneth A. Richman
Edition: 1
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: B008SM659W
Category: Medical

Ethics and the Metaphysics of Medicine: Reflections on Health and Beneficence (Basic Bioethics)

Definitions of health and disease are of more than theoretical interest. Download Ethics and the Metaphysics of Medicine medical books for free.
Understanding what it means to be healthy has implications for choices in medical treatment, for ethically sound informed consent, and for accurate assessment of policies or programs. This deeper understanding can help us create more effective public policy for health and medicine. It is notable that such contentious legal initiatives as the Americans with Disability Act and the Patients' Bill of Rights fail to define adequately the medical terms on which their effectiveness depends. In Ethics and the Metaphysics of Medicine, Kenneth Richman develops an "embedded instrumentalist" theory of health and applies it to practical problems in health care and medicine, addressing to Get Ethics and the Metaphysics of Medicine our bestseller medical books.

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In Ethics and the Metaphysics of Medicine, Kenneth Richman develops an "embedded instrumentalist" theory of health and applies it to practical problems in health care and medicine, addressing to

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