Ethics : the heart of health care / David Seedhouse.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Seedhouse, David, 1956-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical ethics.

Ethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (276 p.)

Edition:

3rd ed.

Place of Publication:

Chichester, U.K. : Wiley-Blackwell : Values Exchange, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Ethics: The Heart of Health Care - a classic ethics text in medical, health and nursing studies - is recommended around the globe for its straightforward introduction to ethical analysis. In this Third Edition David Seedhouse again demonstrates tangibly and graphically how ethics and health care are inextricably bound together, and creates a firm theoretical basis for practical decision-making. He not only clarifies ethics but, with the aid of the acclaimed Ethical Grid, teaches an essential practical skill which can be productively applied in day-to-day health care. Completely

Contents:

Ethics: The Heart of Health Care; Contents; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; Preface to the Third Edition; Preface to the Second Edition; Preface to the First Edition; Acknowledgements; Introduction to the Third Edition; Introduction to the Second Edition; 1: Growing Pains; 2: Ethics is the Key; 3: Problems of Practice; 4: The Search for Morality; 5: Persons and Potentials; 6: Theories of Ethics; 7: Obstacles to Clear Moral Reasoning; 8: The Rings of Uncertainty; 9: The Background to the Ethical Grid; Color Plate; 10: The Use of the Ethical Grid; 11: The Values Exchange; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 202-206) and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

9786612349867

9781282349865

1282349864

9780470773161

0470773162

OCLC:

476225845