Limits of Medical Paternalism

• Preface, 1. THE PROBLEM OF PATERNALISM IN MODERN MEDICINE AND HEALTH CARE, 2. FREEDOM, CONSTRAINT AND THE VALUE OF AUTONOMY, 3. PATERNALISM, COERCION AND CONSTRAINT, 4. THE UTILITARIAN CASE FOR STRONG PATERNALISM, 5. MORALS AND SOCIETY, 6. APPEALS TO RATIONALITY: THE VARIETIES OF PRUDENTIALISM, 7. THE LIMITS OF MEDICAL PATERNALISM, Notes, Bibliography, Name index

'Let me say at once that this is a fascinating and important book, which should be read by all clinicians from the most senior to the most junior, and by all medical students' - David Short, Journal of the Christian Medical Fellowship