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Health Care Ethics : Principles and Problems

ISBN: 9780130194480 | 0130194484
Edition: 4th
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Pub. Date: 1/1/2001

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SummaryTable of Contents
For undergraduate/graduate-level courses in Medical Ethics, Biomedical Ethics, Nursing Ethics, or Health Care Ethics.This clear, accessible text/reference explores the full range of contemporary issues in health care ethics from a practical wisdom philosophical perspective. The authors present the fundamental concerns of modern medical ethics autonomy, beneficence, justice, and confidentiality then provide analysis, cases, and insights from professional literature to develop problems. Principles are applied directly to cases, and many examples ... MORE
Prefaceix
PRINCIPLES OF HEALTH CARE ETHICS
Ethics, Professional Ethics, and Health Care Ethics
1(28)
Theories of Ethics
... MORE(6)
Key Issues
8(7)
Applied Ethics
15(1)
The Professions and Professional Ethics
16(5)
The Health Care Professions
21(6)
Summary
27(1)
Notes
27(2)
Principles of Autonomy and Informed Consent
29(28)
General Formulation
29(1)
Patient Autonomy: Informed Consent
30(9)
Paternalism: Weak and Strong
39(4)
The Consent of Children, Adolescents, and Incompetent Patients
43(2)
Exceptions in Emergencies
45(5)
The Right to Refuse Treatment
50(1)
Problem Areas
51(1)
Summary
52(1)
Cases for Analysis
52(3)
Notes
55(2)
Principles of Beneficence and Nonmaleficence
57(26)
Introduction
57(2)
Specifications of Beneficence
59(2)
Specifications of Nonmaleficence
61(5)
The Patient's Obligation
66(2)
The Health Care Provider's Obligation
68(2)
The Surrogate's Obligation
70(9)
Summary
79(1)
Cases for Analysis
79(2)
Notes
81(2)
The Ethics of Distribution
83(28)
Introduction
83(1)
A Definition of Health and Disease
83(8)
Theories and Their Limits
91(6)
Microallocation: Individual and Institutional Rationing
97(9)
Summary
106(1)
Cases for Analysis
106(3)
Notes
109(2)
Principles of Confidentiality and Truthfulness
111(25)
Introduction
111(1)
Truthfulness
112(5)
Confidentiality
117(14)
Summary
131(1)
Cases for Analysis
131(3)
Notes
134(2)
PROBLEMS OF HEALTH CARE ETHICS
Professional Standards and Institutional Ethics
136(29)
Introduction
136(1)
Judging Quality
137(3)
The Obligation to Police
140(8)
Institutional Ethics
148(4)
Ethics Committees
152(3)
Competition and Institutional Ethics
155(5)
Summary
160(1)
Cases for Analysis
160(3)
Notes
163(2)
Ethical Problems of Death and Dying
165(33)
Introduction
165(1)
Ethics of the Patient
165(5)
Health Care Providers and the Ethics of Suicide Prevention
170(2)
Health Care Providers and the Ethics of the Death of a Patient
172(7)
Physician Initiatives
179(2)
Cooperation with Active Suicide and Euthanasia
181(4)
Surrogates and the Termination of Treatment
185(8)
Summary
193(1)
Cases for Analysis
194(3)
Notes
197(1)
Abortion and Maternal-Fetal Conflict
198(31)
Introduction
198(2)
Does the Fetus Have Rights? U.S. Law
200(1)
The Definition and Types of Abortion
201(2)
The Moral Status of the Fetus
203(4)
The Autonomy of the Pregnant Woman
207(7)
The Ethics of Abortion as a Social Phenomenon
214(2)
Abortion and the Health Care Provider
216(4)
Maternal-Fetal Conflict
220(4)
Summary
224(1)
Cases for Analysis
224(3)
Notes
227(2)
New Methods of Reproduction
229(22)
Introduction
229(1)
Artificial Insemination and the General Problem of Assisted Reproduction
230(3)
In Vitro Fertilization
233(4)
Surrogate Mothers
237(3)
The Charge of Artificiality
240(3)
The Ethics of the Health Care Provider
243(2)
A Question of Distributive Justice
245(1)
Summary
246(1)
Cases for Analysis
247(3)
Notes
250(1)
The Ethics of Transplants
251(27)
Introduction
251(1)
The Ethics of Organ Donation
252(8)
The Ethics of the Recipient
260(1)
The Ethics of the Health Care Team
260(6)
The Health Care Provider's Ethics of Distribution
266(4)
The Society's Ethics of Distribution
270(4)
Summary
274(1)
Cases for Analysis
274(3)
Notes
277(1)
The Ethics of Testing and Screening
278(21)
Introduction
278(1)
Testing
279(9)
Ethical Problems of Mass Screening
288(7)
Summary
295(1)
Cases for Analysis
296(2)
Notes
298(1)
The Ethics of Biomedical Research
299(34)
Introduction
299(1)
The Ethics of the Researcher
300(12)
The Ethics of the User of Research Results
312(5)
Fetal Research
317(4)
Genetic Therapy
321(5)
Clonning
326(1)
Summary
327(1)
Cases for Analysis
328(5)
References333(20)
Index353

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