Ethics and community in the health care professions / edited by Michael Parker.

London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.

x, 207 pages ; 23 cm.

The health service as civil association / Andrew Edgar -- All you need is health: liberal and communitarian views on the allocation of health care resources / Hub Zwart -- Return to community: the ethics of exclusion and inclusion / Chris Heginbotham -- Community disintegration or moral panic? Young people and family care / Donna Dickenson -- Contracting care in the community / Michael Hammond -- Virtual genetic counselling: a European perspective on the role of information technology in genetic counselling / Ruth Chadwick and Kim Petrie -- Cultural diversity and the limits of tolerance / Sirkku Hellsten -- Ethics, community and the elderly: health care decision-making for incompetent elderly patients / Mark R. Wicclair -- Power, lies and injustice: the exclusion of service users' voices / Vivien Lindow -- Ethical codes: the protection of patients or practitioners? / J. Stuart Horner

Includes bibliographic references (p. 188-200) and index