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- catalog abstract ""Although we live healthier lives than ever before, concerns about health have never been greater. Nerve-racking tales of incompetent or even murderous doctors abound, while at the same time we are bombarded by stories of amazing technical advances that promise to abolish ageing and illness forever." "In this controversial book, Theodore Dalrymple takes a step back and examines health and healthcare from a philosophical viewpoint. He argues that good health is greatly over-valued as an ideal, that it is neither a necessary nor a sufficient condition of 'the good life', that the search for health can be made to serve totalitarian ends, and that no one has a right to healthcare." "Medical paternalism is often justified, he argues: patients are not customers, medical ethics are more complicated than most philosophers seem to appreciate, addiction is as much a moral problem as a physical one, and doctors cannot always be morally neutral or non-judgemental with regard to the lives and conduct of their patients." "Most of his opinions are in complete disagreement with the prevailing orthodoxy, and his forthright views are certain to cause heated debate in both lay and professional quarters."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12209487.
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description ""Although we live healthier lives than ever before, concerns about health have never been greater. Nerve-racking tales of incompetent or even murderous doctors abound, while at the same time we are bombarded by stories of amazing technical advances that promise to abolish ageing and illness forever." "In this controversial book, Theodore Dalrymple takes a step back and examines health and healthcare from a philosophical viewpoint. He argues that good health is greatly over-valued as an ideal, that it is neither a necessary nor a sufficient condition of 'the good life', that the search for health can be made to serve totalitarian ends, and that no one has a right to healthcare." "Medical paternalism is often justified, he argues: patients are not customers, medical ethics are more complicated than most philosophers seem to appreciate, addiction is as much a moral problem as a physical one, and doctors cannot always be morally neutral or non-judgemental with regard to the lives and conduct of their patients." "Most of his opinions are in complete disagreement with the prevailing orthodoxy, and his forthright views are certain to cause heated debate in both lay and professional quarters."--Jacket.".
- catalog extent "160 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0715629735".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "London : Duckworth,".
- catalog subject "Medical care.".
- catalog subject "Medical ethics Philosophy.".
- catalog subject "Medicine Miscellanea.".
- catalog subject "Medicine Philosophy.".
- catalog subject "R725 .D35 2001".
- catalog subject "Right to health.".
- catalog title "An intelligent person's guide to medicine / Theodore Dalrymple.".
- catalog type "text".