Richard B. Miller

Children, Ethics, and Modern Medicine

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Utilizing a form of medical ethnography to investigate a variety of pediatric contexts, Richard B. Miller tests the fit of different ethical approaches in various medical settings to arrive at a new paradigm for how best to care for children. Miller contends that the principle of beneficence must take priority over autonomy in the treatment of children. Yet doctors alone cannot decide what is best for the child. Determining and implementing such decisions. Miller argues, doctors must become part of a therapeutic alliance with families and the child undergoing medical care to arrive at the best course of treatment. Children, Ethics, and Modern… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-253-34222-5
EAN: 9780253342225
Produktnummer: 1537787
Verlag: Indiana Univ Pr
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
Seitenangabe: 328 S.
Masse: H24.0 cm x B16.4 cm x D2.9 cm 644 g
Gewicht: 644
Sonstiges: Ab 22 J.

Über den Autor

Richard B. Miller is Director of the Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions and Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington. He is the author of Interpretations of Conflict: Ethics, Pacifism, and the Just-War Tradition (1991) and Casuistry and Modern Ethics: A Poetics of Practical Reasoning (1996). He has edited War in the Twentieth Century: Sources in Theological Ethics (1993) and has written articles in social philosophy and religious ethics.