Ethics of health care a guide for clinical practice

Ethics of health care a guide for clinical practice

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Edge, Raymond S.
Other Authors: Groves, John Randall
Format: Unknown
Published: Clifton Park, NY Thomson Delmar Learning 2006
Edition:3rd ed.
Subjects:
Delivery of Health Care
Ethics, Medical
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Table of Contents:
  • Human value development
  • Decision making in value issues
  • Basic principles of health care ethics
  • The nature of rights in ethical discourse
  • Confidentiality and the management of health care information
  • Professional gatekeeping as a function of role fidelity
  • Autonomy vs. paternalism: a contest between values
  • Justice and the allocation of scarce resources
  • Withholding and withdrawing life support
  • Euthanasia: practice and principles
  • Reproductive issues
  • AIDS and health care practice
  • Ethical issues and genetic manipulation
  • Culturally appropriate health care
  • Appendix: codes of professional ethics, selected health professions

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