Key Concepts and Issues in Nursing Ethics
Short case studies, based on real stories from the health care arena, ensure that each chapter of this book is rooted in descriptions of nursing practise that are grounded, salient narratives of nursing care. The reader is assisted to explore the eth
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Key Concepts and Issues in Nursing Ethics
P. Anne Scott Editor
Key Concepts and Issues in Nursing Ethics
Editor P. Anne Scott Vice President for Equality & Diversity National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland
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Foreword
Since its establishment in the late 1960s, modern bioethics has been dominated by a focus on respect for rational and autonomous persons as the pivotal actors in medicine and healthcare. This focus reflects the influence of the Kantian philosophy of autonomous human beings, able to identify and prescribe universal ethical standards to themselves, entirely rational and free from any heterogeneous reinforcement. It also mirrors Mill’s appreciation of the high value of human freedom of individuals, only to be restricted when it confines the freedom of others. The prioritisation of respect for autonomy in modern bioethics has radically changed the perspective in which patients are regarded within healthcare. For millennia, patients were seen as fundamentally incapacitated by pain, suffering, ignorance and disease, thus justifying a paternalistic approach in medicine. In contemporary healthcare – at least in most Western countries – patients are now seen as being fundamentally on an equal footing with physicians. As a positive consequence of the stellar status of autonomy in contemporary bioethics, medical paternalism has lost its justification as the default appro
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