عنوان

The Law-Medicine Relation:

(Number (ISBN

9400984073

(Number (ISBN

9789400984073

Number

b536178

Title Proper

The Law-Medicine Relation:

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

A Philosophical Exploration : Proceedings of the Eighth Trans-Disciplinary Symposium on Philosophy and Medicine Held at Farmington, Connecticut, November 9-11, 1978

First Statement of Responsibility

edited by Stuart F. Spicker, Joseph M. Healey, H. Tristram Engelhardt.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Dordrecht

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Springer Netherlands

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

1981

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

(xxx, 293 pages)

Series Title

Philosophy and medicine, 9.

Text of Note

Section I / The Physician's and Researcher's Mandate from Society: Biomedical, Legal, and Ethical Considerations --;Introductory Comments --;Clinical Intuition: A Procedure for Balancing the Rights of Patients and the Responsibilities of Physicians --;Physicians and Society: Tribulations of Power and Responsibility --;Clinical Investigations in Developing Countries: Legal and Regulatory Issues in the Promotion of Research and the Protection of Human Rights --;Federal Regulation of Medicine and Biomedical Research: Power, Authority and Legitimacy --;Section II / Causation and Responsibility: Science, Medicine and the Law --;Causation and Responsibility: Medicine, Science and the Law --;Relevant Causes: Their Designation in Medicine and Law --;Time, Law and Responsibility: Additional Thoughts on Causality --;Section III / The Psychiatrist's Dilemma: Duty to Patient or Duty to Society? --;Psychotherapeutic Discretion and Judicial Decision: A Case of Enigmatic Justice --;The Morality of Involuntary Hospitalization --;Duty to the Patient or Society: Reflections on the Psychiatrist's Dilemma --;Section IV / Decision Making at the Beginning of Life: Medicine, Ethics and the Law --;The Bearing of Prognosis on the Ethics of Medicine: Congenital Anomalies, the Social Context and the Law --;Substantive Criteria and Procedures in Withholding Care from Defective Newborns --;Is Existence Ever an Injury?: The Wrongful Life Cases --;Wrongful Life: A Reply to Angela Holder --;Section V / Round Table Discussion --;Legal Rights and Moral Responsibilities in the Health Care Process --;Physician, Patient and Malpractice: An Historical Perspective --;The Concept of a Right Ordering --;The Function of Legal Rights in the Health Care Setting --;The Child-Patient: Do Parents have the 'Right to Decide'? --;Legal Rights and Moral Responsibilities in the Health Care Process --;Closing Remarks --;Notes on Contributors.

Text of Note

Proceedings of the eighth trans-disciplinary symposium on philosophy and medicine held at Farmington, Connecticut, November 9-11,1978

Parallel Title

Proceedings of the eighth trans-disciplinary symposium on philosophy and medicine held at Farmington, Connecticut, November 9-11,1978

Medical ethics.

Medicine -- Philosophy.

Philosophy (General)

edited by Stuart F. Spicker, Joseph M. Healey, H. Tristram Engelhardt.

H Tristram Engelhardt

Joseph M Healey

Stuart F Spicker

Electronic name

[Book]

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