Full Description
Provides students with tools to identify the problems in heath care.
Health Care Ethics is aclear, accessible text/reference that explores the full range of contemporary issues in health care ethics from a practical wisdom approach. The authors present the fundamental concerns of modern medical ethics—-autonomy, beneficence, justice, and confidentiality-—and then provide analysis, cases, and insights from professional literature to discuss them. Throughout, the discussion starts with larger issues or concepts and principles and then focuses on specific problems or complications.
Learning Goals
Upon completing this book, readers will be able to:
Identify the problems in health care ranging from end of life issues to testing and research.
Develop a more well-rounded understanding of cultural traditions that are not a part of the mainstream discussion of American medical ethics.
Analyze the various views on health care ethics.
Contents
In this Section:
1. Brief Table of Contents
2. Full Table of Contents
1. Brief Table of Contents
Part 1: Principles of Health Care Ethics
Chapter 1: Ethics, Professional Ethics, and Health Care Ethics
Chapter 2: Principles of Autonomy and Informed Consent
Chapter 3: Principles of Beneficence and Nonmaleficence
Chapter 4: The Ethics of Distribution
Chapter 5: Principles of Confidentiality and Truthfulness
Part 2: PROBLEMS OF HEALTH CARE ETHICS
Chapter 6: Professional Standards and Institutional Ethics
Chapter 7: Ethical Problems of Death and Dying
Chapter 8: Abortion and Maternal-Fetal Conflict
Chapter 9: New Methods of Reproduction
Chapter 10: The Ethics of Transplants
Chapter 11: The Ethics of Testing and Screening
Chapter 12: The Ethics of Biomedical Research
2. Full Table of Contents
Part 1: Principles of Health Care Ethics
Chapter 1: Ethics, Professional Ethics, and Health Care Ethics
Theories of Ethics
Key issues
Applied Ethics
The Professions and Professional Ethics
The Health Care Professions
Summary
Chapter 2: Principles of Autonomy and Informed Consent
General Formulation
Patient Autonomy: Informed Consent
Paternalism: Weak and Strong
The Consent of Children, Adolescents, and Incompetent Patients
Exceptions in Emergencies
The Right to Refuse Treatment
Problems Areas
Summary
Cases for Analysis
Chapter 3: Principles of Beneficence and Nonmaleficence
Introduction
Specifications of Beneficence
Specifications of Nonmaleficence
The Patient's Obligation
The Health Care Provider's Obligation
The Surrogate's Obligation
Summary
Cases for Analysis
Chapter 4: The Ethics of Distribution
Introduction
A Definition of Health and Disease
Theories and Their Limits
Microallocation: Individual and Institutional Rationing
Summary
Cases for Analysis
Chapter 5: Principles of Confidentiality and Truthfulness
Introduction
Truthfulness
Confidentiality
Summary
Cases for Analysis
Part 2: PROBLEMS OF HEALTH CARE ETHICS
Chapter 6: Professional Standards and Institutional Ethics
Introduction
Judging Quality
The Obligation to Police
Institutional Ethics
Ethics Committees
Competition and Institutional Ethics
Summary
Cases for Analysis
Chapter 7: Ethical Problems of Death and Dying
Introduction
Ethics of the Patient
Health Care Providers and the Ethics of the Death of a Patient
Physician Initiatives
Cooperation with Active Suicide and Euthanasia
Surrogates and the Termination of Treatment
Summary
Cases for Analysis
Chapter 8: Abortion and Maternal-Fetal Conflict
Introduction
Does the Fetus Have Rights: U.S. Law
The Definition and Types of Abortion
The Moral Status of the Fetus
The Autonomy of the Pregnant Woman
The Ethics of Abortion as a Social Phenomenon
Abortion and the Health Care Provider
Maternal-Fetal Conflict
Summary
Cases for Analysis
Chapter 9: New Methods of Reproduction
Introduction
Artificial Insemination and the General Problem of Assisted Reproduction
In Vitro Fertilization
Surrogate Mothers
The Charge of Artificiality
The Ethics of the Health Care Provider
A Question of Distributive Justice
Summary
Cases for Analysis
Chapter 10: The Ethics of Transplants
Introduction
The Ethics of Organ Donation
The Ethics of the Recipient
The Ethics of the Health Care Team
The Health Care Provider's Ethics of Distribution
The Society's Ethics of Distribution
Summary
Cases for Analysis
Chapter 11: The Ethics of Testing and Screening
Introduction
Testing
Ethical Problems of Mass Screening
Summary
Cases for Analysis
Chapter 12: The Ethics of Biomedical Research
Introduction
The Ethics of the Researcher
The Ethics of the User of Research Results
Fetal Research
Genetic Therapy
Reproductive and Therapeutic Cloning
Summary
Cases for Analysis
