Full Description
Every accredited American hospital is required to have a process for handling ethical concerns within the institution. For the most part, hospitals satisfy this requirement by constituting an institutional healthcare ethics committee (HEC). However, many of these individuals, while well intentioned, have neither the training in ethics, nor the tools at their disposal to address properly the ethical considerations brought to them. Yet healthcare providers and patients turn to these committee members for ethical insight. This book focuses on HEC member education by providing definitive and comprehensive learning content for members of HECs. This second edition is fully updated throughout and adds new chapters that reflect the evolving nature of health care. Chapters are written by internationally recognized experts in bioethics and are directed specifically at members of HECs. Each chapter includes learning objectives, case presentations, and discussion questions to facilitate committee conversation.
Contents
Preface D. Micah Hester and Toby Schonfeld; Part I: 1. Introduction D. Micah Hester and Toby Schonfeld; 2. Brief introduction to ethics and ethical theory D. Micah Hester and Toby Schonfeld; 3. Healthcare ethics committees and the law Stephen Latham; 4. Understanding and addressing health disparities through a racial paradigm J. L. McCurdy and C. Y. Dupree; 5. Cultural and religious issues in health care Alissa Hurwitz Swota; 6. Moral distress Lucia Wocial; Part II: 7. Ethics consultation mission, vision, goals, and process Georgina D. Campelia and Denise M. Dudzinski; 8. A method of consultation D. Micah Hester; 9. Informed consent Jessica Berg; 10. Confidentiality and privacy: Traditional concerns and digital challenges Kenneth W. Goodman; 11. Decision-making capacity Arthur R. Derse; 12. Discharge challenges: Shifting from acute to chronic care Wayne Shelton; 13. Surrogate decision making Thomas V. Cunningham; 14. Advance care planning and end-of-life decision-making Nancy M. P. King and John C. Moskop; 15. Potentially inappropriate treatment and medical futility Thaddeus Mason Pope; 16. Cognitive dissonance and the care of patients with disorders of consciousness Joseph J. Fins; 17. Ethical issues in reproduction Anne Drapkin Lyerly; 18. Ethical issues in neonatology John D. Lantos; 19. Ethical issues in pediatrics Douglas S. Diekema and D. Micah Hester; 20. Neuroethics Paul J. Ford; 21. Ethical issues in clinical genetics Thomas May, Kelly East, Whitley Kelley and Jana Craig; 22. Challenging issues in surgical ethics: Intraoperative decision making, innovative surgery, and high risk operations near the end of life Darryl Schuitevoerder and Peter Angelos; 23. Psychiatric ethics Cynthia M. A. Geppert; Part III: 24. Conscientious objection Mark R. Wicclair; 25. Ethics committees and distributive justice Nancy S. Jecker; 26. Developing and implementing effective ethics policy Sabrina F. Derrington; 27. Ethics in and for the organization Margaret Moon; 28. The healthcare ethics committee as educator Kathy Kinlaw; 29. Understanding ethics pedagogy Felicia Cohn; 30. Quality assessment of healthcare ethics committees Katherine Wasson.
