{"product_id":"risk-and-luck-in-medical-ethics-hardback-9780745621456","title":"Risk and Luck in Medical Ethics (Hardback) 9780745621456","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eRisk and Luck in Medical Ethics\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDonna L. Dickenson (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780745621456, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 15 November 2002\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e280 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.6 x 16 x 2.5 cm, 0.526 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e“Although risk is widely discussed in the medical ethics literature, luck has been conspicuously absent. This book seeks to fill this void by drawing on the extensive treatments of luck by philosophers and applying them to issues in medicine and health care…the book provides a useful framework for analyzing issues in medical ethics.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn R. Williams, The Heythop Journal\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Dickenson's book is truly groundbreaking. By viewing issues of applied ethics through the unusual prism of moral luck, she throws an unexpected light on familiar themes in medical ethics, and by bringing the problem of moral luck into relatively unchartered areas, she goes some way in rectifying the neglect into which this important problem has fallen in recent years.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eStuart Rennie, Ethical Perspectives\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eEthics is commonly assumed to be the one realm in which luck and risk do not intrude. It has been said that 'While one can be lucky in one's business, in one's married life, and in one's health, one cannot, so it is commonly assumed, be subject to luck as far as one's moral worth is concerned.' But although we do not normally hold people responsible for outcomes beyond their control, a serious examination of the role of luck and risk may lead us to conclude that very few outcomes are really within people's control. This is the paradox of 'moral luck'.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRisk and Luck in Medical Ethics\u003c\/i\u003e examines the 'moral luck' paradox in greater detail, relating it to Kantian, consequentialist, and virtue-based approaches to ethics. Dickenson applies the paradoxes of risk and luck to medical ethics, including timely discussion of risk and luck in the allocation of scarce health care resources, informed consent to treatment, decisions about withholding life-sustaining treatment, psychiatry, reproductive ethics, genetic testing, and medical research and evidence-based medicine.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe book concludes with an examination of the relevance of risk and luck in a medical context to the study of global ethics. If risk and luck are taken seriously, it would seem to follow that we cannot develop any definite moral standards at all, that we are doomed to moral relativism. However, Dickenson offers strong counter-arguments to this view that enable us to think in terms of universal standards for judging ethical systems. This claim has direct practical relevance for practitioners as well as philosophers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction. \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter One: Ethics versus Luck\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe myriad forms of luck.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA preliminary typology of luck.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOutcome luck: further considerations.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMoral luck: how serious and genuine is the paradox?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJudgement from hindsight: Gauguin and Anna Karenina.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEscaping from the paradox.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter Two: The Fragility of Virtue and the Robust Health of Kantianism.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMoral luck and virtue.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe fragility of goodness.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eKantianism and moral luck.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter Three Utilitarianism and Luck in Outcomes\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eActual consequences.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePotential consequences.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRemorse and regret.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter Four: Risk and Consent\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe law of consent: prudent patient versus reasonable doctor.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRemorse, responsibility and consent.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRationality and risk.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHow much is the doctor responsible for?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter Five: Death and Dying.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWithdrawal of life-sustaining treatment and assisted suicide.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAdvance directives.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter Six: Moral Luck and the Allocation of Health Care Resources\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe `micro level`.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eKnowing our limits: ‘the macro level’.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter Seven: Reproductive Ethics: What Risks Can Women Be Asked to Bear?.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRisk, contract and ‘surrogacy’.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTherapeutic and human cloning.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter Eight Psychiatry and Risk\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRisk and dangerousness: luck in outcomes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLuck in character.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter Nine: Luck, genetics and moral character\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAre genes us?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGenetics and luck in decisions to be faced.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGenetics and luck in antecedent circumstances.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGauguin revisited: character, genetics and moral luck.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter Ten Moral Luck and Global Ethics\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTowards justice and virtue: O’Neill’s account.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe final synthesis: global ethics and moral luck.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Medicine: general issues [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Medicine: general issues\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Medicine:%20general%20issues%20%5BMB%5D%22\"\u003eMB\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52406560391448,"sku":"9780745621456","price":49.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9780745621456.jpg?v=1784140103","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/risk-and-luck-in-medical-ethics-hardback-9780745621456","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}