Ethics and Health Care: An Introduction (Cambridge Applied Ethics)
Cambridge University Press, 3/3/2016
EAN 9781107015470, ISBN10: 1107015472
Hardcover, 386 pages, 24.7 x 17.4 x 2.3 cm
Language: English
Who should have access to assisted reproductive technologies? Which one of many seriously ill patients should be offered the next available transplant organ? When may a surrogate decision maker decide to withdraw life-prolonging measures from an unconscious patient? Questions like these feature prominently in the field of health care ethics and in the education of health care professionals. This book provides a concise introduction to the major concepts, principles and issues in health care ethics, using case studies throughout to illustrate and analyse challenging ethical issues in contemporary health care. Topics range widely, from confidentiality and truthfulness to end-of-life care and research on human subjects. Ethics and Health Care will be a vital resource for students of applied ethics, bioethics, professional ethics, health law and medical sociology, as well as students of medicine, nursing and other health care professions.
Part I. Ethics in Health Care
Role, History, and Methods
1. The role of ethics in health care
2. A brief history of health care ethics and clinical ethics consultation in the United States
3. Methods of health care ethics
4. Law and ethics in health care
5. Culture and ethics in health care
Part II. Moral Foundations of the Therapeutic Relationship
6. Privacy and confidentiality
7. Truthfulness
8. Informed consent to treatment
9. Surrogate decision-making
10. Professionalism
responsibilities and privileges
11. Resource stewardship
Part III. Controversies in Health Care Ethics
Treatment Choices at the Beginning and at the End of Life
12. Assisted reproductive technologies
13. Abortion
14. Maternal-fetal conflict
15. Advance care planning and advance directives
16. Moral conflicts in end-of-life care
17. Medical futility
18. Aid in dying
Part IV. Ethics in Special Contexts
Biomedical Research, Genetics, and Organ Transplantation
19. Research on human subjects
20. The genetic revolution
21. Organ transplantation
For further reading
References
Index.