Trolleyology in Medicine: How the Trolley Problem Sheds Light on Medical Ethics

Andrade, Gabriel

Trolleyology in Medicine: How the Trolley Problem Sheds Light on Medical Ethics
  • 出版商: Springer
  • 出版日期: 2024-10-01
  • 售價: $2,370
  • 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $2,252
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 103
  • 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
  • ISBN: 303172805X
  • ISBN-13: 9783031728051

    • 海外代購書籍(需單獨結帳)

相關主題

商品描述

This book provides an overview of how the intricacies of the Trolley Problem shed light on various aspects of medical ethics. It shows how trolley dilemmas have become useful to ethicists to the extent that they activate intuitions and provide guidance about what the relevant moral principle ought to be in judging specific actions.

Issues are covered at length such as euthanasia, where it is important to determine a relevant difference between killing and letting die; and abortion, where it is necessary to establish if harms can be used as a means to an end. While specialists in medical ethics have argued about these topics at length, few have established connections with the complexities of trolley cases. The Trolley Problem has now become a staple of pop culture and yet, outside philosophy, few people understand its implications. Consequently, this book is of interest to those with a general interest in philosophy, students, researchers as well as those in the healthcare industry where many of the difficult moral decisions encountered are better informed by framing them around the intricacies of the Trolley Problem.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

本書概述了電車難題的複雜性如何揭示醫學倫理的各個方面。它展示了電車困境如何對倫理學家變得有用，因為這些困境能夠激發直覺並提供指導，幫助判斷特定行為應該遵循的相關道德原則。

書中詳細探討了許多議題，例如安樂死，在這裡重要的是要確定殺人與放任死亡之間的相關差異；以及墮胎，在這裡需要確定傷害是否可以作為達成目的的手段。儘管醫學倫理專家對這些主題進行了長時間的辯論，但很少有人將其與電車案例的複雜性建立聯繫。電車難題如今已成為流行文化的主食，然而在哲學之外，少有人理解其含義。因此，本書對於對哲學有一般興趣的人、學生、研究者以及醫療行業中的人員都具有吸引力，因為許多面臨的困難道德決策可以通過將其框架化於電車難題的複雜性來獲得更好的資訊。

作者簡介

Gabriel Andrade (he/him) is an assistant professor in the College of Medicine at Ajman University, United Arab Emirates. He has previously taught at Saint Matthew's University School of Medicine (Cayman Islands), Xavier University School of Medicine (Aruba), and University of Zulia (Venezuela). He has extensive experience teaching the intricacies of ethics to medical students, and how that relates to various aspects of behavior, on both clinical and subclinical levels. He has published introductory books on the history of philosophy and has written a number of articles related to various aspects of medical ethics. His articles have focused on the ethical shortcomings of some alternative therapies in mental health. He has also focused on the ethical implications of various futurist technologies in medicine (e.g., cryonics and radical life extension).

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

加布里埃爾·安德拉德（Gabriel Andrade，代稱他/他）是阿聯酋阿治曼大學醫學院的助理教授。他曾在聖馬修大學醫學院（開曼群島）、哈維爾大學醫學院（阿魯巴）和蘇利亞大學（委內瑞拉）任教。他在教授醫學生倫理學的複雜性方面擁有豐富的經驗，並探討這些倫理與行為的各個層面之間的關聯，包括臨床和亞臨床層面。他出版過關於哲學歷史的入門書籍，並撰寫了多篇與醫學倫理各個方面相關的文章。他的文章專注於某些替代療法在心理健康方面的倫理缺失。他還關注於各種未來主義技術在醫學中的倫理影響（例如，冷凍保存和激進的生命延續）。

類似商品