Health Care Ethics: Critical Issues for the 21st Century (Book with Access Code)

by Morrison, Eileen E.; Furlong, Beth

• ISBN13: 9781449665357
• ISBN10: 1449665357
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback w/ Access Code
• Copyright: 2013-02-21
• Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning

Summary

Organized around four central themes in healthcare ethics (theoretical foundations and issues for individuals, organizations, and society), Health Care Ethics: Critical Issues for the 21st Century brings together the insights of leading experts in the fields of bioethics, long-term care, health administration, and more. Designed for graduate and upper level graduate programs, this text challenges the reader to think beyond the existing system of medicine and inspires further exploration and thought. The Third Edition offers two new chapters that examine the ethics of healthcare reform and the ethical issues related to the populations not covered by the Affordable Care Act. A third new chapter looks at ethics related to assisted living. All other chapters have been updated with coverage of the newest medical technologies, new discussions, and more.

Table of Contents

A HeadDedication
A HeadContributors
A HeadAbout the Authors
Preface
PartI FOUNDATIONS IN THEORY
Chapter1 Theory of Healthcare Ethics
Chapter2 Principles of Healthcare Ethics
PartII CRITICAL ISSUES FOR INDIVIDUALS
Chapter3 The Moral Status of Gametes and Embryos: Storage and Surrogacy
Chapter4 The Ethical Challenges of the New Reproductive Technologies
Chapter5 Abortion: The Unexplored Middle Ground
Chapter6 Proposals for Human Cloning: A Review and Ethical Evaluation
Chapter7 Competency: What It Is, What It Is Not, and Why It Matters
Chapter8 Older People and Issues of Access to Long-Term Care
Chapter9 Assisted Living and Ethics
Chapter10 Ethical Issues in the Use of Fluids and Nutrition: When Can They Be Withdrawn?
Chapter11 Death, Medicine, and Moral Significance of Family Decision Making
Chapter12 Ethical Issues Concerning Physician-Assisted Death
PartIII CRITICAL ISSUES FOR HEALTHCARE ORGANIZATIONS
Chapter13 Healthcare Institutional Ethics: Broader than Clinical Ethics
Chapter14 Hospital Ethics Committees: Rules, Membership, Structures, and Difficulties
Chapter15 Bioethical Dilemmas in Emergency Medicine and Prehospital Care
Chapter16 Technological Advances in Health Care: Blessing or Ethics Nightmare?
Chapter17 Spirituality and Healthcare Organizations
PartIV CRITICAL ISSUES IN SOCIETAL HEALTH
Chapter18 Health Inequalities and Health Inequities
Chapter19 Is Rationing of Health Care Ethically Defensible?
Chapter20 Domestic Violence: Changing Theory, Changing Practice
Chapter21 Ethics of Disaster Planning and Response
Chapter22 A New Era of Health Care: The Ethics of Healthcare Reform
Chapter23 Healthcare Reform: What About Those Left Behind?
Chapter24 Looking Toward the Future
A HeadGlossary