For the Patient's Good: The Restoration of Beneficence in Health Care

by Edmund D. Pellegrino and David C. Thomasma

In this companion volume to their 1981 work, A Philosophical Basis of Medical Practice, Pellegrino and Thomasma examine the principle of beneficence and its role in the practice of medicine. Their analysis, which is grounded in a thorough-going philosophy of medicine, addresses a wide array of practical and ethical concerns that are a part of health care decision-making today. Among these issues are the withdrawing and withholding of nutrition and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195043197
• ISBN13: 9780195043198
• Release Date: February 1988
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.6"