Family-oriented informed consent : East Asian and American perspectives /: East Asian and American perspectives. ([2015])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Ruiping Fan, editor.
• Editors: Fan, Ruiping, 1962-
• Contents: Acknowledgments; Contents; Contributors; Part I; Introduction; Chapter-1; Informed Consent: Why Family-Oriented?; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 The Problems of Individual-Directed Informed Consent; 1.3 The Justification of Family-Oriented Informed Consent; 1.4 Challenges to Family-Oriented Informed Consent; 1.5 Concluding Remarks; References; Part II; Dependency, Autonomy, and the Role of the Family; Chapter-2; Dependency, Decisions, and a Family of Care; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Definition of a Family; 2.3 Anecdotes of Individualism; 2.4 Individualism and Technological Brinksmanship. 2.5 Dependency and the Community of Care2.6 Dependency and the Family of Care; 2.7 Conclusions; References; Chapter-3; Individually Directed Informed Consent and the Decline of the Family in the West; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 The Family and Human Flourishing; 3.3 Western Bioethics and the Undermining of the Family; 3.4 Conclusion; References; Chapter-4; Family and Autonomy: Towards Shared Medical Decision-Making in Light of Confucianism; 4.1 The Patient as Agent: A Desirable Ideal?; 4.2 A Real Case: The Broken Voice of the Patient; 4.3 The Confucian View of Medical Practice: The Art of Ren. 4.4 The Internal/External Perspective of Medical Ethics vs. the Perspective of Ren4.5 Concluding Remarks; References; Part III; Informed Consent: Individual-Oriented vs. Family-Oriented; Chapter-5; The Ideal of Autonomy and Its Misuse; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 The Ideal of Autonomy; 5.3 Misinterpretations and Misuses of Autonomy; 5.4 Is Family-Oriented Decision Making an Alternative?; 5.5 A Constructive Understanding of Autonomy; 5.6 Some Practical Suggestions; References; Chapter-6; The Confucian Alternative to the Individual-Oriented Model of Informed Consent: Family and Beyond. 6.1 Confucian Ethics as an Alternative6.2 How Confucian Ethics is Different from Familism; 6.2.1 Multiple Value vs. Family Value; 6.2.2 Relation-Based vs. Family-Based; 6.2.3 Role-Based Perspective vs. Holistic Family Perspective; 6.3 How Important is Informed Consent?; 6.4 The Confucian Response to Informed Consent; 6.5 Confucian Virtue Ethics at Work; 6.5.1 Case A; 6.5.2 Case B; 6.6 Conclusion; Reference; Chapter-7; The East Asian Family-Oriented Principle and the Concept of Autonomy; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 The East Asian Principle of Autonomy and Family-Sovereignty. 7.3 Family-Oriented Principle: Challenges and Responses7.4 The Problem of Family-Oriented Paternalism in Bioethics; 7.5 The Family-Oriented Principle: Confucianism and Familism; 7.6 The Primacy of Autonomy; 7.7 Conclusion; References; Part IV; Family Consent in End-of-Life Decision Making; Chapter-8; Family Consent in Medical Decision-Making in Taiwan: The Implications of the New Revisions of the Hospice Palliative Care Act; 8.1 Introduction; 8.2 The Development of the Hospice Palliative Care Act in Taiwan; 8.3 The Rationale for Family Involvement.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer
• Publication Date: 2015
• Copyright Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 174.2; Medical ethics; Informed consent (Medical law); Bioethics; Medicine -- Philosophy; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Business Ethics; Bioethics; Informed consent (Medical law); Medical ethics; Medicine -- Philosophy; Philosophy; Ethics; Theory of Medicine/Bioethics; Philosophy of Medicine; Ethics, Medical; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319121208; 3319121200; 3319121197; 9783319121192
• Related ISBNs: 9783319121192
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Vendor-supplied metadata.
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