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Who Should Decide?: Paternalism in Health Care
Author(s): James F. Childress (Author)
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Publication Date: July 11, 1985
- Language: English
- Print length: 264 pages
- ISBN-10: 0195039769
- ISBN-13: 9780195039764
Book Description
The first full-scale examination of medical paternalism by an ethicist, this book uses a wide range of cases to establish principles that justify or constrain paternalistic intervention in various clinical situations.
Editorial Reviews
Review
"A very good book indeed: there is scarcely an issue anyone has thought to raise about the topic which Childress fails to treat with sensitivity and good judgment....The best existing treatment of the subject."--Ethics"An important work....Once read, [it] becomes indispensable to one's subsequent formulations of the subject."--The New England Journal of Medicine"A clear, scholarly and balanced analysis....This is a book I can recommend to physicians, ethicists, students of both fields, and to those most affected--the patients themselves."--Edmund D. Pellegrino, Georgetown University Medical Center"Readable, reasoned, and balanced....Childress has provided us with a comprehensive work which helps us confront this question."--Law, Medicine and Health Care"In a time of heightened consumer consciousness in which at least some are demanding a larger role in their own care, this is a timely volume for both the consumers and the providers of health care." --Journal of Religious Studies
About the Author
James F. Childress, University of Virginia.
