Bøger af Martin Benjamin

Back in the day when it seemed the church held more sway than the government most of the institutions were run by the various orders of nuns, brothers and priests and therefore appeared to feel they were immune to the laws of the land when it came to ¿caring" for the children in their charge. Institutional abuse was rampant whether it be physical. emotional or sexual and offenders. if discovered. were merely moved to other parishes or institutions to continue their ways when indeed ANY action was taken against them.Dark Secrets chronicles the life of one of these "cared for" children and the life he was given (not lived, given). Martin was given up for care from birth to the day be was, to put it politely, ushered out the door when he became of age with nothing but his wits to guide him.This is his story.

Martin Benjamin bridges the gap between academic philosophy and the questions of educated nonspecialists.

"Like fire and secrecy," writes Martin Benjamin, "compromise is both indispensable and dangerous to civilized life." Using wide-ranging examples drawn from current debates--including a variety of important medical and bioethical cases--he explores the surprisingly rich and complex notion of compromise and integrity in ethics and politics. He tackles tough questions--how practical and theoretical ethics are related, what compromise means for ethical theory, how compromise is a matter of judgment, and whether it is possible to compromise without being compromised. In the final chapter he explores the possibility of political compromise in a matter of great ethical significance--abortion.

Starting with detailed cases based on real life, the fourth edition of Ethics in Nursing introduces the principles, concepts, and reasoning needed to think them through. Changes in this edition reflect important developments in nursing, ethical theory, and nursing ethics. Among the expanded set of 64 cases, 22 have been significantly revised and 15 are entirely new. Reasoning skills and philosophical understanding are explained and illustrated in casesinvolving: nurses and clients; inter-professional relationships; personal responsibility for institutional and public policy; and cost containment, justice, and rationing. New material on ethical theory includes an illustrated explanation and defense of moral pluralism, a section on the ethics of care, andan expanded discussion of reflective equilibrium as a method of ethical reasoning. New topics include pandemics and care for SARS patients, elderly patients contemplating suicide, and workplace violence. As with previous editions, both the nursing and philosophical content are self-contained, making the book accessible to readers with little or no background in either. Ethics in Nursing provides practicing and student nurses with a useful introduction to the identification andanalysis of ethical issues that reflects both the special perspective of nursing and the value of systematic philosophical inquiry.