- Title Pages
- Foreword
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Preface to the First Edition
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Knowledge, Skills, and Values
- Chapter 2 Scientific Understanding and Decision-Making
- Chapter 3 Moral Values
- Chapter 4 Autonomy and Respect
- Chapter 5 Embryos, Persons, and Other Human Beings
- Chapter 6 Individual and Group Responsibility
- Chapter 7 Moral Conflict and Moral Deficiency
- Chapter 8 Alternative Views of Human Nature
- Chapter 9 Arguments
- Chapter 10 Learning and Teaching Moral Values
- Chapter 11 Making Contact and Making Decisions
- Chapter 12 Working Together
- Chapter 13 A Question of Living
- Chapter 14 Quality Of Life
- Chapter 15 Public Health
- Chapter 16 A Question of Dying
- Chapter 17 A Question of Economics
- Chapter 18 Moral Aspects of Research
- Chapter 19 Quality in Health Care
- Chapter 20 Codes of Ethics
- 1. Classical sources
- 2. Moral philosophy
- 3. Health care ethics
- 4. Collections of essays
- 5. Reference books
- 6. Journals
- 7. Logic and the philosophy of science
- 8. Literature and moral education
- Index
Knowledge, Skills, and Values
Knowledge, Skills, and Values
- Chapter:
- (p.8) Chapter 1 KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND VALUES
- Source:
- Healthy Respect
- Author(s):
R. S. Downie
K. C. Calman
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Clinical facts are necessary but not sufficient for clinical decision making; judgements of an ethical nature are also necessary. This points to the assumptions of the book: morality (ethics) is inescapable; morality is all-pervasive; morality is indivisible (the traditional distinction between ‘professional ethics’ and ‘private morality’ is rejected); moral decisions must arise from medical and economic realities; morality is to a great extent learnable and teachable.
Keywords: decision making, clinical facts, professional ethics, private morality
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- Title Pages
- Foreword
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Preface to the First Edition
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Knowledge, Skills, and Values
- Chapter 2 Scientific Understanding and Decision-Making
- Chapter 3 Moral Values
- Chapter 4 Autonomy and Respect
- Chapter 5 Embryos, Persons, and Other Human Beings
- Chapter 6 Individual and Group Responsibility
- Chapter 7 Moral Conflict and Moral Deficiency
- Chapter 8 Alternative Views of Human Nature
- Chapter 9 Arguments
- Chapter 10 Learning and Teaching Moral Values
- Chapter 11 Making Contact and Making Decisions
- Chapter 12 Working Together
- Chapter 13 A Question of Living
- Chapter 14 Quality Of Life
- Chapter 15 Public Health
- Chapter 16 A Question of Dying
- Chapter 17 A Question of Economics
- Chapter 18 Moral Aspects of Research
- Chapter 19 Quality in Health Care
- Chapter 20 Codes of Ethics
- 1. Classical sources
- 2. Moral philosophy
- 3. Health care ethics
- 4. Collections of essays
- 5. Reference books
- 6. Journals
- 7. Logic and the philosophy of science
- 8. Literature and moral education
- Index