ABSTRACT

Needs and Moral Necessity analyses ethics as a practice, explains why we have three moral theory-types, consequentialism, deontology and virtue ethics, and argues for a fourth needs-based theory.

chapter 1|7 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|20 pages

What ethics is

chapter 3|18 pages

Ethics as a practice

chapter 4|18 pages

Meeting patients’ needs

chapter 5|19 pages

The moral demandingness of needs

chapter 6|16 pages

Objections

chapter 7|19 pages

Consequentialism

chapter 8|18 pages

Deontology

chapter 9|18 pages

Virtue ethics