Health policy and ethics : a critical examination of values from a global perspective / Roger Worthington and Robert Rohrbaugh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Worthington, Roger.

Contributor:

Rohrbaugh, Robert M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Health Policy.

Bioethical Issues.

Medical policy--Moral and ethical aspects.

Medical policy.

Medical ethics.

Medical Subjects:

Health Policy.

Bioethical Issues.

Physical Description:

xii, 156 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Racliffe Pub., [2011]

Summary:

Insisting that ethical considerations must be factored into public policy considerations of the provision of health care services, Worthington (general internal medicine, Yale U.) and Rohrbaugh (psychiatry, Yale U.) theoretically discuss relationships between law, health care, and ethics and compare different frameworks for incorporating ethical considerations into policy analysis, with most of this discussion based on frameworks and events relating to the UK. They then present case studies exploring the ways in which the ethical principles of different cultures are reflected in their health care policies in chapters discussing China, India, and Malaysia, as well as papers discussing ethics and the pharmaceutical industry, the ethics of physician involvement in interrogations at the American detention camp at Guantanamo, Italian policy and the ethics of electroconvulsive therapy, and patient perceptions of risk and implications for policy in the UK. Published by Radcliffe Publishing, UK, and distributed in the US by BookMasters. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781846193101

1846193109

OCLC:

715921247