Family-Oriented Informed Consent: East Asian and American Perspectives

Book Overview

I. Dependency, Autonomy, and the Role of the Family.- 1. Dependency, Decisions, and a Family of Care; Jeffrey P. Bishop.- 2. Individually Directed Informed Consent and the Decline of the Family in the West.- Mark J. Cherry; 3. Family and Autonomy: Towards Shared Medical Decision-Making in Light of Confucianism; Jue Wang.- II. Informed Consent: Individual-oriented vs. Family-oriented.- 4. The Ideal of Autonomy and Its Misuse; Kyungsuk Choi.- 5...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319354256
• ISBN13: 9783319354255
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"