Changing Values in Medical and Health Care Decision Making

Abstract

Book originated in an international conference held at the University of Aarhus, Denmark, in June 1988, sponsored by the European Society for Philosophy of Medicine and Health Care. Changing Values: Autonomy and Paternalism in Medicine and Healthcare -- Commodities, Needs and Healthcare: A Communal Perspective -- Changing Concepts of Medical Ethics -- The Place of Values in Healthcare: Recurring Themes in the Philosophy of Medicine -- Building Networks: A Constructivist Perspective on Changes in Medicine and Healthcare -- Medical Decision Analysis and the Coming Moral Crisis in Healthcare -- Social Change and the Perception of Risks in Medical Practice -- Healthcare Needs, Values and Change -- How Changed Values Influence Evaluative Concept -- Changing Clinical Practice: A Case Study in Breast Cancer -- Retrenchment and Values in a Health Organization -- Hungarian Healthcare: A Challenge to Medical Values? -- Medical Malpractice Phenomena: Signals for Changing Medical and Healthcare Values -- Resource Allocation in Healthcare: The Role of the Courts -- Changing Values and Changing Practice.