TY - BOOK ID - 12819086 TI - Risk and luck in medical ethics. PY - 2003 SN - 0745621465 0745621457 PB - Cambridge Polity Press DB - UniCat KW - Fortune. KW - Medical ethics. KW - Risk. KW - Uncertainty. KW - moraalfilosofie KW - bio-ethiek (medische, biomedische ethiek, bio-ethische aspecten) KW - risicomanagement (risico-evaluatie, risicobeheer) KW - veiligheid KW - geluk (onzekerheid) KW - aansprakelijkheid KW - verantwoordelijkheid (verantwoordingsplicht, verantwoording) KW - ethiek (ethische aspecten) KW - philosophie morale KW - bioéthique (éthique médicale, biomédicale, aspects bioéthiques) KW - évaluation du risque (gestion du risque) KW - sécurité (principe de sécurité) KW - chance (incertitude) KW - responsabilité KW - responsabilité (imputabilité, obligation de rendre compte) KW - ethique (aspects ethiques) KW - Fortune KW - Medical ethics KW - Risk KW - Uncertainty KW - Reasoning KW - Economics KW - Probabilities KW - Profit KW - Risk-return relationships KW - Biomedical ethics KW - Clinical ethics KW - Ethics, Medical KW - Health care ethics KW - Medical care KW - Medicine KW - Bioethics KW - Professional ethics KW - Nursing ethics KW - Social medicine KW - Luck KW - Opportunity KW - Moral and ethical aspects UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:12819086 AB - Ethics is commonly assumed to be the one realm in which luck and risk do not intrude. It has been said that 'While one can be lucky in one's business, in one's married life, and in one's health, one cannot, so it is commonly assumed, be subject to luck as far as one's moral worth is concerned.' But although we do not normally hold people responsible for outcomes beyond their control, a serious examination of the role of luck and risk may lead us to conclude that very few outcomes are really within people's control. This is the paradox of 'moral luck'. Risk and Luck in Medical Ethics examines the 'moral luck' paradox in greater detail, relating it to Kantian, consequentialist, and virtue-based approaches to ethics. Dickenson applies the paradoxes of risk and luck to medical ethics, including timely discussion of risk and luck in the allocation of scarce health care resources, informed consent to treatment, decisions about withholding life-sustaining treatment, psychiatry, reproductive ethics, genetic testing, and medical research and evidence-based medicine. The book concludes with an examination of the relevance of risk and luck in a medical context to the study of global ethics. If risk and luck are taken seriously, it would seem to follow that we cannot develop any definite moral standards at all, that we are doomed to moral relativism. However, Dickenson offers strong counter-arguments to this view that enable us to think in terms of universal standards for judging ethical systems. This claim has direct practical relevance for practitioners as well as philosophers. ER -