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Title: Principles of Biomedical Ethics by Tom L., Ph.D. Beauchamp, James F., Ph.D. Childress ISBN: 0-19-514332-9 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: 15 February, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $31.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Outstanding Text
Comment: This is the most recent edition of a first rate textbook on the difficult topic of medical ethics. The authors' approach is neither to attempt to derive a set of guidelines from abstract moral theory nor to be completely empirical in the sense of simply assessing what clinicians and researchers do when dealing with moral issues. The approach of this book is to extract a series of important principles from the best aspects of practice and then to generalize these principles. The 4 basic principles set out by the authors are respect for autonomy, non-maleficience, beneficience, and justice. The book is divided into a series of well written and integrated chapters covering the basic rationale for the authors' approach, each of the principles, professional-patient relations, and concluding with a set of chapters covering basic moral theories and how the authors' approach fits in with moral theory and competing approaches.
This book has many virtues. The basic approach is strong and practical. Each principle and the exposition of each principle is embedded in real clinical moral problems. The authors make the interesting and important point that none of these principles have priority over another and that balances need to be sought between these principles. This book is simultaneously an excellent exposition of a strong approach to medical ethics and useful reference source to clarify thinking. The bibliography is excellent. Some of the chapters, notably the sections on autonomy and those on justice, are outstanding. The quality of writing is clear and the sections are distinguished by clarity of thought. The authors set themselves objective of writing a book that would combine a high level of rigor and would be useful, reaching a mixed audience of physicians, researchers, and others concerned with medical ethics. They have succeeded.
Rating: 5
Summary: You CAN Tell a Book by its Cover
Comment: Book Review PRINCIPLES OF BIOMEDICAL ETHICS Tom L. Beauchamnp and James F. Childress
"You can't tell a book by it's cover." Don't you believe it! Principles of Biomedical Ethics by Beauchamp and Childress is every bit as formidable as it's cover might suggest. That is not to say that the book is poorly written or inadequate in any way. It is just that this reviewer is a student, whose professor, at the end of the course confessed to the class the the text was indeed a demanding work requiring proportional effort on the part of the student. Granting that, it was the best of several texts he had examined.
After setting the stage, in chapter one with a discussion of approaches to ethics, the authors, in chapter two, deliniate in detail, eight classical ethical theories, which form the foundation of the study. Through liberal use of examples, the authors reveal that all theories have both weaknesses as well as strengths and that to rely on one theory to the exclusion of others is indeed a hightly questionable approach to ethical decision making.
In the subsequent six chapters, the authors continue with a wealth of case studies, elaborate on the importance of autonomy, privacy and dangers of paternalism; they discuss the elements of nonmaleficence and beneficence as essential elements in the Hippocratic oath. Distictions are made between killing and letting die. Arguments are made for and against the use of medically administered nutrition and hydration. Balancing prima facie norms to provide treatment and for truth telling are examined and the extenuating circumstances when these seemingly basic tenets may not be appropriate are discussed.
The authors have not dodged the knotty problems of availability of organs for transplantation, rationing of scarce treatments and health care resources, costs of health care or the concepts or theories of justice as they relate to health care. The appendix consists of ten case histories. There is a abundance of footnotes at the end of each chapter sufficient to satisfy the most rigorous student.
This is not a book for the casual reader. But for someone desiring an in depth treatment of current issues in health care from the standpoint of the physician, chaplain or health care administrator, I recommend this book without reservation.
Ernest G. Barr
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Title: CLINICAL ETHICS: A Practical Approach to Ethical Decisions in Clinical Medicine by Albert R. Jonsen, Mark Siegler, William J. Winslade ISBN: 0071387633 Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Appleton & Lange Pub. Date: 22 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Classic Cases in Medical Ethics: Accounts of Cases That Have Shaped Medical Ethics, with Philosophical, Legal, and Historical Backgrounds by Gregory Pence ISBN: 0072829354 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages Pub. Date: 15 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $41.20 |
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Title: Biomedical Ethics by Thomas A Mappes, David DeGrazia ISBN: 0072303654 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages Pub. Date: 03 August, 2000 List Price(USD): $78.25 |
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Title: The Foundation of Bioethics by H. Tristram, Jr. Engelhardt ISBN: 0195057368 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: January, 1996 List Price(USD): $46.50 |
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Title: Law and Bioethics: An Introduction by Jerry Menikoff ISBN: 0878408398 Publisher: Georgetown University Press Pub. Date: April, 2002 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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