The Impact of Health Care

Michael Welker; Eva Winkler; John Witte Jr.; Stephen Pickard

doi:10.5771/9783374073054

Summary

Pluralism has become the defining characteristic of many modern societies. Not only a plurality of individual and social claims and activities gain impacts on societal life. A creative pluralism of institutions and their norms profoundly shape our moral commitments and character – notably the family, the market, the media, and systems of law, religion, politics, research, education, health care, and defense. In the theoretical, empirical, and historical contributions to this volume, specialists on medicine, medical ethics, psychology, theology and health care discuss the many challenges that major transformations in their areas of expertise pose to the communication and orientation in late modern pluralistic societies. Contributors come from Germany, the USA and Australia.

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Bibliographic data

Publication year: 2023
Publication date: 23.06.2023
ISBN-Print: 978-3-374-07304-7
ISBN-Online: 978-3-374-07305-4
Publisher: EVA, Leipzig
Language: English
Pages: 204
Product type: Edited Book

Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis No access Pages 1 - 20
Part One: Medical Ethics Between Medicine and Economy No access Pages 21 - 22
Time for a New Oath? The Role of the Individual Physician’s Ethos and Institutional Ethics in the Face of Economization of the Health-Care System No access Pages 23 - 34 Eva C. Winkler
Mercy under Conditions of Scarcity and the Need for Organization; or, Where Is the Humane Ethos Located in the Health-Care System? An Outline of the Problem No access Pages 35 - 44 Günter Thomas
Ethical Tensions in the Medical Treatment of Elderly Patients in Geriatrics and Geriatric Psychiatry No access Pages 45 - 50 Christine Thomas
Part Two: Ethical Impacts of Advancing Medical Research and Techniques No access Pages 51 - 52
The Impact of Advances in Stem Cell and Genome Research on Ethical Decision-Making No access Pages 53 - 64 Anthony D. Ho
The Acceptance of Genetic Technologies by Individuals, Societies, and Health-Care Systems No access Pages 65 - 76 Ruth M. Farrell
Ethical Discourse on Epigenetics and Genome Editing: The Risk of (Epi!)Genetic Determinism and Scientifically Controversial Basic Assumptions No access Pages 77 - 100 Karla Alex, Eva C. Winkler
The Impact of Advances in Surgical Techniques and Quality-of-Life Considerations on Ethical Decision-Making and Education in Neurosurgery No access Pages 101 - 118 Andreas Unterberg, Pavlina Lenga
Part Three: Digital Medicine and Ethical Decisions No access Pages 119 - 120
Ethical Aspects of Digital Transformation in Medicine and Health Care No access Pages 121 - 136 Giovanni Rubeis, Nadia Primc
Family Decision-Making in Times of Genomic Newborn Screening No access Pages 137 - 150 Beate Ditzen, Christian P. Schaaf
Part Four: Health Care: History, Education, Practice No access Pages 151 - 152
On the History of the Nursing Ethos in Germany No access Pages 153 - 164 Karen Nolte
Health-Care Chaplains and Medical Ethics: Clinical and Educational Experiences No access Pages 165 - 174 Thorsten Moos
Medical Anthropology and Theology on Human Destiny No access Pages 175 - 196 Gregor Etzelmüller
Psychotherapy, Personality, and the Role of Values No access Pages 197 - 202 Peter Kirsch
Contributors No access Pages 203 - 204