Medical Ethics

A Very Short Introduction, 2nd Edition

By: Tony Hope, Michael Dunn

Narrated by: Romy Nordlinger

The issues of medical ethics, from moral quandaries of euthanasia and the morality of killing to political dilemmas like fair healthcare distribution, are rarely out of today's media. This area of ethics covers a wide range of issues, from mental health to reproductive medicine, as well as including management issues such as resource allocation, and has proven to hold enduring interest for the general public as well as the medical practitioner. This Very Short Introduction provides an invaluable tool with which to think about the ethical values that lie at the heart of medicine.

This new edition explores the ethical reasoning we can use to approach medical ethics, introducing the most important "tools" of ethical reasoning, and discussing how argument, thought experiments, and intuition can be combined in the consideration of medical ethics. Considering its practical application, Tony Hope and Michael Dunn explore how medical ethics supports health professionals through the growing use of ethics expertise in clinical settings. They also contemplate the increasingly important place of medical ethics in the wider social context, particularly in this age of globalization, not only in healthcare practice, but also policy, discussions in the media, pressure group and activism settings, and in legal judgments.

©2018 Michael Dunn, Tony Hope (P)2021 Tantor

Interesting

Does a good wide scope of medical ethics and it's complexities. Simple enough to understand and in depth enough to cause one to think.

Better to read than listen to

The first, printed, edition of this book was excellent - well written, stimulating, enjoyable. I recommended it to med students. Health tech and care options have changed immensely over the past 20 years so I was looking forward to listening to this updated edition. I’ll read the book instead. I found the audio delivery very off-putting. Others may find it OK. Personally I’ve struggled to find engaging or even tolerable audio in the Very Short Introduction series. The podcast series is better listening.