Healthy Respect: Ethics in Health Care

by R.S. Downie, Kenneth C. Calman

Glasgow University, U.K. Concise text on medical ethics, for medical, dental, or nursing students.

310 pages, Hardcover

First published July 1, 1987

About the author

Aka Ruth Downie

Reviews

[Zoya · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is an incredibly informative book that summarises many ethical topics well, and draws attention where necessary in the field of ethics and morality within healthcare. I think it would be very helpful to students who wish to study in healthcare, have little knowledge of medical ethics and perhaps have to be interviewed- this book is clear and informative. However, I have not managed to finish the book because it is slightly mundane. Perhaps the topics studied in this book are no longer novel, they are debated in the media, shared in the news and taught in medical schools. Perhaps this book was novel for its time (published in 1994), but these topics are commonly discussed as they belong to a continually evolving field and therefore I was not captivated by its contents.