BOOKS
Chris Gastmans.
Between Technology and Humanity: The Impact of Technology on Health Care Ethics.
Leuven, University Press, 2002.
€ 25.00
Softcover, 259pp., 16.5x24cm., in good condition (light traces of use on the outside). ISBN: 9789058672513.
This book highlights both the relation between technology and care, and the normative aspects of economic analyses in health care. A series of concrete examples from various clinical fields (prenatal diagnosis, genetic tests, digital imaging in psychiatry, tube feeding in care for the elderly, and palliative sedation) helps the authors to consider how to integrate these technologies in a care context aimed upon humaneness. Each topic is analysed by leading European clinicians and health care ethicists.