Human Dignity and Bioethics 2009

This collection of essays explores a fundamental concept that is central to today's discourse in law and ethics in general, and bioethics in particular. In this volume, scholars in philosophy, medicine and medical ethics, law, political science and social policy...

Moral Contextualism in Medical Ethics 2016

Huge advances in medical science over several years have prompted consideration of the use of the right to life in medical practice. It has been recognised that the moral rights enshrined in the Hippocratic Oath serve ethical dilemmas in public life. The concept of the 'right to life' in...

Risk and Luck in Medical Ethics 2003

This book examines in detail the paradox of 'moral happiness' , relating it to the Kantian, consequentialist and virtue approach to ethics. Dickenson applies the paradoxes of risk and luck to medical ethics, including a timely discussion of risk and luck in the allocation of...