Thomas May

Issues concerning patients' rights are at the center of bioethics, but the political basis for these rights has rarely been examined. In Bioethics in a Liberal Society: The Political Framework of Bioethics Decision Making, Thomas May offers a compelling analysis of how the political context of liberal constitutional democracy shapes the rights and obligations of both patients and health care professionals. May focuses on how a key feature of liberal society—namely, an individual's right to make independent decisions—has an impact on the most important relational facets of health care, such as patients' autonomy and professionals' rights of conscience. Although a liberal political framework protects individual judgments, May asserts that this right is based on the assumption of an individual's competency to make sound decisions. May uses case studies to examine society's approach to medical decision making when, for reasons ranging from age to severe mental disorder, a person lacks sufficient competency to make independent and fully informed choices. To protect the autonomy of these vulnerable patients, May emphasizes the need for health care ethics committees and ethics consultants to help guide the decision-making process in clinical settings. Bioethics in a Liberal Society is essential reading for all those interested in understanding how bioethics is practiced within our society.

The Political Framework of Bioethics Decision Making

Bioethics in a Liberal Society

The Christian course, or Helps to the practice of meditation

Jo Cooke

Nathan Field

Thomas Tomkis

“A” Select Collection of Old English Plays

Being a Clear Account of Their Arbitrary, Cruel and Illegal Proceedings, Under the Notion of Liberty and Property. And a Compendious History of Those Times. By a Person of Honour

Arbitrary Government Display'd: in the Tyrannick Usurpation of the Rump Parliament, and Oliver Cromwell

Wherein Arbitrary Government is Display'd to the Life, in the Illegal Transactions of the Late Times Under the Tyrannick Usurpation of Oliver Cromwell; Being a Paralell to the Four Years Reign of the Late King James, Whose Government was Popery, Slavery and Arbitrary Power, But Now Happily Delivered by the Instrumental Means of King William & Queen Mary

An Epitomy of English History

Max is a troubleshooter for the DOD and was assigned to investigate the department's unground tunnel labs as there wasn’t any response from them in the last 24 hours. Max was sent in to check out the trouble. As he travels down the tunnel he finds a few survivors and a lot of carnage. He has to get the survivors out and kill the killers doing the damage.

The Death Tunnel

Lucan

Frans Van Oudendorp

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