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The Direction of Medical Ethics The direction bioethics, and
specifically medical ethics, will take in the next few years will
be crucial. It is an emerging specialty that has attempted a great
deal, that has many differing agendas, and that has its own
identity crisis. Is it a subspecialty of clinical medicine? Is it a
medical reform movement? Is it a consumer pro tection movement? Is
it a branch of professional ethics? Is it a ra tionale for legal
decisions and agency regulations? Is it something physicians and
ethical theorists do constructively together? Or is it a morally
concentrated attack on high technology, with the prac titioners of
scientific medicine and the medical ethicists in an adversarial
role? Is it a conservative endeavor, exhibiting a Frankenstein syn
drome in Medical Genetics ("this time, they have gone too far"), or
a Clockwork Orange syndrome in Psychotherapy ("we have met hods to
make you talk-walk-cry-kill")? Or does it suffer the afflic tion of
overdependency on the informal fallacy of the Slippery Slope ("one
step down this hill and we will never be able to stop") that
remains an informal fallacy no matter how frequently it's used? Is
it a restricted endeavor of analytic philosophy: what is the
meaning of "disease," how is "justice" used in the allocation of
medical resources, what constitutes "informed" or "consent?" Is it
applied ethics, leading in clinical practice to some recommenda
tion for therapeutic or preventive action? This incomplete list of
questions indicates just how complex,"
This volume presents a systems approach to understanding and
managing the AIDS crisis - an approach that addresses the needs not
only of HIV- infected individuals, but also of families and
communities at risk from AIDS. Discussions are included on HIV
epidemiology and risk reduction, medical management of the AIDS
patient, and neuropsychiatric aspects of HIV infection. Strategies
for psychotherapeutic intervention, from individual through group
to extended family system, are described in detail. The authors
examine spiritual, religious and cultural factors in communities
and offer guidelines for building a community network for AIDS
prevention and intervention. Full consideration is also given to
ethical and policy issues, and to the risks faced by health care
providers. First published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of
Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
In this work, Colleen Clements presents her case for the need to
subject the field of bioethics to a critical external analysis
apart from the current postmodern assumptions. Clements argues
that, since the 1970s, bioethics has refuted human values in favour
of political consensus building. This failure to recognize basic
human values in the ethical critique of modern medicine has lead to
a dehumanization of the medical system by the field. Clements
proceeds to advocate a naturalistic theory of bioethics that
reinstates primary human values.
The Direction of Medical Ethics The direction bioethics, and
specifically medical ethics, will take in the next few years will
be crucial. It is an emerging specialty that has attempted a great
deal, that has many differing agendas, and that has its own
identity crisis. Is it a subspecialty of clinical medicine? Is it a
medical reform movement? Is it a consumer pro tection movement? Is
it a branch of professional ethics? Is it a ra tionale for legal
decisions and agency regulations? Is it something physicians and
ethical theorists do constructively together? Or is it a morally
concentrated attack on high technology, with the prac titioners of
scientific medicine and the medical ethicists in an adversarial
role? Is it a conservative endeavor, exhibiting a Frankenstein syn
drome in Medical Genetics ("this time, they have gone too far"), or
a Clockwork Orange syndrome in Psychotherapy ("we have met hods to
make you talk-walk-cry-kill")? Or does it suffer the afflic tion of
overdependency on the informal fallacy of the Slippery Slope ("one
step down this hill and we will never be able to stop") that
remains an informal fallacy no matter how frequently it's used? Is
it a restricted endeavor of analytic philosophy: what is the
meaning of "disease," how is "justice" used in the allocation of
medical resources, what constitutes "informed" or "consent?" Is it
applied ethics, leading in clinical practice to some recommenda
tion for therapeutic or preventive action? This incomplete list of
questions indicates just how complex,"
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