Risk and Luck in Medical Ethics

摘要: Introduction. Chapter One: Ethics versus Luck. The myriad forms of luck. A preliminary typology Outcome luck: further considerations. Moral how serious and genuine is the paradox?. Judgement from hindsight: Gauguin Anna Karenina. Escaping paradox. Two: Fragility Virtue Robust Health Kantianism. luck virtue. fragility goodness. Kantianism moral Three Utilitarianism Luck in Outcomes. Actual consequences. Potential Remorse regret. Four: Risk Consent. law consent: prudent patient reasonable doctor. Remorse, responsibility consent. Rationality risk. How much doctor responsible for?. Five: Death Dying. Withdrawal life--sustaining treatment assisted suicide. Advance directives. Six: Allocation Care Resources. 'micro level'. Knowing our limits: 'the macro Seven: Reproductive Ethics: What Risks Can Women Be Asked to Bear?. Risk, contract 'surrogacy'. Therapeutic human cloning. Eight Psychiatry Risk. dangerousness: outcomes. character. Nine: Luck, genetics Are genes us?. Genetics decisions be faced. antecedent circumstances. revisited: character, Ten Global Ethics. Towards justice virtue: O'Neill's account. final synthesis: global ethics Bibliography