Health care ethics : critical issues for the 21st century / edited by Eileen E. Morrison, Beth Furlong.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Morrison, Eileen E.

Furlong, Elizabeth.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical ethics.

Bioethical Issues.

Delivery of Health Care--ethics.

Ethics, Clinical.

Medical Subjects:

Bioethical Issues.

Delivery of Health Care--ethics.

Ethics, Clinical.

Physical Description:

xiv, 439 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Edition:

Third edition.

Place of Publication:

Burlington, MA : Jones & Bartlett Learning, [2014]

Contents:

Theory of health care ethics

Principles of health care ethics

The moral status of gametes and embryos : storage and surrogacy

The ethical challenges of the new reproductive technology

Abortion : the unexplored middle ground

Proposals for human cloning : a review and ethical evaluation

Competency : what it is, what it isn't and why it matters

Older people long-term care issues

Assisted-living and ethics

Ethical issues in the use of fluids and nutrition : when can they be withdrawn?

Death, medicine, and moral significance of family decision making

Ethical issues concerning physician-assisted death

Healthcare institutional ethics : broader than clinical ethics

Hospital ethics committees : rules, membership structure, and difficulties

Bioethical dilemmas in prehospital and emergency care

Medical technology : blessing or ethics nightmare?

Spirituality and health care organizations

Equality and inequality in American healthcare

Is rationing of healthcare ethically defensible?

Domestic violence : changing theory, changing practice

Ethics issues in disaster relief

A new era of health care : the ethics of healthcare reform

Healthcare reform : what about those left behind?

Looking toward the future.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781449657376

1449657370

9781449665357

1449665357

OCLC:

811318248