Ethical Dimensions in the Health Professions

Purtilo, R. B.

ISBN 10: 0721602436 / ISBN 13: 9780721602431

Editore: Elsevier Saunders, 2005

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• Titolo: Ethical Dimensions in the Health Professions
• Editore: Elsevier Saunders
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0721602436
• ISBN 13: 9780721602431
• Rilegatura: Brossura
• Edizione: quarta edizione
• Condizione: Fair
• Peso: 550 grammi
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
  • Medicine

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Riassunto

Carefully written to ensure successful use by all health care professionals, Ethical Dimensions in the Health Professions is still the only cross-disciplinary ethics book available. The new 4th edition of this bestselling title helps readers think critically and thoughtfully about ethical decisions they face in practice. Utilizing a unique 6-step decision making process designed by the author, this text provides an expert framework for making for making effective decisions.

• Questions and answers are positioned throughout the text to encourage critical thinking and enforce the interactive approach.
• Presents Western and non-Western sources of ethical thought, and case studies reflect a diversity of practitioners, settings, and cultures
• Discusses traditional normative theories in additional to newer approaches
• Features in every chapter include: objectives, new terms and ideas presented in the chapter; a list of topics in the chapter that were introduced in earlier chapters; case stories with diverse practice settings and practitioner types to appeal to a broad audience; summary boxes that synthesize key ideas; reflection boxes with answer blanks to indicate important concepts and encourage students to think critically about the material presented; fill in the blank questions in the text to further knowledge acquisition and retention; a summary paragraph at the end of the chapter; and questions for thought and discussion

• Weaves the 6-step ethical decision-making process more consistently throughout the text
• Reflects recent changes in health care, society, and ethics, and provides information on ethical issues based on new medical and high-tech discoveries
• Features expanded and updated case studies, with several new cases presented, further enforcing the interactive and dynamic approach
• Provides new information on the law-ethics relationship, showing how ethics are interdependent with legal issues

Contenuti

I. Introduction to Ethical Dimensions in the Health Professions
1. Morality and Ethics: What Are They and Why Do They Matter?
2. The Ethical Goal of Professional Practice and Prototypes of Ethical Problems
3. Ethics Theories and Approaches: All You Need to Know
4. A Six-Step Process of Ethical Decision Making in Arriving at a Caring Response

II. Ethical Dimensions of Professional Roles
5. Surviving Student Life Ethically
6. Surviving Professional Life Ethically
7. Living Ethically within Health Care Organizations
8. Living Ethically as a Member of the Health Care Team

III. Ethical Dimensions of the Professional-Patient Relationship
9. Why Honor Confidentiality?
10. Why So Much Emphasis on Truth Telling?
11. Why Care About Informed Consent?

IV. Ethical Dimensions of Chronic and End-of-Life Care
12. The Growing Ethical Challenges of Chronic and Long Term Care
13. Ethical Issues in End-of-Life Care

V. Ethical Dimensions of the Social Context of Health Care
14. Distributive Justice: Clinical Sources of Claims for Health Care
15. Compensatory Justice: Social Sources of Claims for Health Care
16. Good Citizenship and Your Professional Role: Life As Opportunity