Ética médica

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El tema de la ética médica, desde la eutanasia, a la moral de tras de matar y preguntas relevantes al acceso y la distribución de recursos médicos, está vigente en todos los medios. Es algo que abarca una amplia gama de temas, como la salud mental, la medicina reproductiva y la administración de recursos. El tema mantiene el interés del público y quienes trabajan en el sector médico. Esta breve introducción es una excelente herramienta para evaluar la ética de tras de la medicina.
En esta nueva edición Tony Hope y Michael Dunn exploran el razonamiento ético que podemos implementar en el ámbito médico para los profesionales y sus prácticas en las clínicas. <br><br> The issue of medical ethics, from thorny moral questions such as euthanasia and the morality of killing to political questions such as the fair distribution of health care resources, is rarely out of today's media. This area of ethics covers a wide range of issues, from mental health to reproductive medicine, as well as including management issues such as resource allocation, and has proven to hold enduring interest for the general public as well as the medical practitioner. This Very Short Introduction provides an invaluable tool with which to think about the ethical values that lie at the heart of medicine. This new edition explores the ethical reasoning we can use to approach medical ethics, introducing the most important 'tools' of ethical reasoning, and discussing how argument, thought experiments, and intuition can be combined in the consideration of medical ethics. Considering its practical application, Tony Hope and Michael Dunn explore how medical ethics supports health professionals through the growing use of ethics expertise in clinical settings. Lecturer in Health and Social Care Ethics, The Ethox Centre, University of Oxford Emeritus Professor of Medical Ethics, University of Oxford <br><br> Michael Dunn dirige conferencias de salud y la ética del cuidado social. Es profesor emérito de la ética médica en Universidad de Oxford. This Very Short Introduction provides an invaluable tool with which to think about the ethical values that lie at the heart of medicine.

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