TY - BOOK ID - 77524343 TI - Who owns our bodies ? : making moral choices in health care. PY - 1997 SN - 1857752104 PB - Abingdon Radcliffe Medical Press DB - UniCat KW - Death KW - Euthanasia KW - Right to die KW - Terminal care KW - patiƫntenrechten (rechten van de patiƫnt) KW - Right to Die KW - Brain Death KW - Ethics, Medical KW - Informed Consent KW - Consent, Informed KW - Treatment Refusal KW - Mental Competency KW - Disclosure KW - Therapeutic Misconception KW - Medical Ethics KW - Medicine KW - Professionalism KW - Bioethics KW - Irreversible Coma KW - Brain Dead KW - Coma Depasse KW - Brain Deads KW - Coma, Irreversible KW - Death, Brain KW - Death with Dignity KW - Dignity, Death with KW - Advance Directives KW - Living Wills KW - Death, Right to KW - Death with dignity KW - Natural death (Right to die) KW - Life and death, Power over KW - Advance directives (Medical care) KW - Do-not-resuscitate orders KW - Suicide KW - Moral and ethical aspects KW - droits du patient KW - ethics KW - Professional ethics. Deontology KW - Human medicine UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77524343 AB - Explores dilemmas at the intersection of medicine, philosophy and law. Addressing euthanasia, abortion, and the care of groups including the elderly, the demented, and children, the author identifies a crisis both in ethics and in empowerment. This book explores the controversial dilemmas which meet at the intersection of medicine philosphy and law - questions concerning killing and not killing which are faced daily in health care. They embrace euthanasia, abortion, the care of the elderly and the demented, the care of the mentally ill children and those in a persistent vegative state. Who Owns our Bodies? identifies a crisis both in ethics and in empowerment as people face often neccessarily wretched choices. It seeks a framework of guidance for practical decision-making and focuses on two key issues. First who decides on an individual's quality of life and thus on their health care treatments? Second how can patients be empowered with a structure to enable choice, self-realization, self-reflection and self-responsibility? John Spiers with characteristic clarity and verve offers a fundamental choice between health care experienced as hierarchy and control and the alternative of choice and self-responsibilty. He argues that health care must rely on patients deciding how much power they have, not on professionals deciding how much to grant them. ER -