The Challenge of Enhancement & Adaptability in Healthcare: An Ethical Framework for Organizations

<p>This work defends enhancements that aim at promoting adaptability and formulates a framework for how healthcare organizations can cope with these sorts of enhancements. It begins by defending explicit approaches to defining enhancements and sketches a tripartite conception of enhancements dependent on well-being, social, and perception approaches. After assessing several major arguments for and against enhancement, it defends an adaptability justification for enhancements. In light of this justification, the remaining sections explore the adaptability argument’s implications for healthcare, justify an organizational approach for dealing with these implications, and finally formulate an organizational ethics framework for coping with the adaptability argument’s implications.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

PhD

Level thesis:degree_level

One-year Embargo

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Health Care Ethics

Year dc:date.available

2017

Author dc:creator

• Edwards, Gary

Contributors dc:contributor

• Gerard Magill
• Henk ten Have
• Joris Gielen

• Enhancements
• Emerging Technology
• Organizational Ethics
• Applied Ethics
• Bioethics and Medical Ethics

Language dc:language

English

Repository record dc:identifier

https://dsc.duq.edu/etd/197

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dsc.duq.edu:etd-1205