Guidance for healthcare ethics committees / edited by D. Micah Hester, Toby Schonfeld.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hester, D. Micah, editor.

Schonfeld, Toby, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical ethics committees.

Medical ethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 185 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Every accredited American hospital is required to have a mechanism for handling ethical concerns; most hospitals satisfy this requirement by constituting an institutional healthcare ethics committee (HEC), a pattern which is repeated in most western countries. This text provides definitive, comprehensive guidance for members of healthcare ethics committees who find themselves confronted with ethically challenging situations. Each chapter includes learning objectives, clinical case studies and questions to stimulate discussion among committee members. Particular emphasis is given to consultation, as this often presents the greatest challenges to committee members. Each chapter stands alone as a teaching module, as well as forming part of a comprehensive volume. Written and edited by nationally and internationally recognized experts in bioethics, this is essential reading for every member of a healthcare ethics committee.

Contents:

Introduction to healthcare ethics committees / D. Micah Hester and Toby Schonfeld

Brief introduction to ethics and ethical theory / D. Micah Hester and Toby Schonfeld

Ethics committees and the law / Stephen Latham

Cultural and religious issues in healthcare / Alissa Hurwitz Swota

Mission, vision, goals : defining the parameters of ethics consultation / Martin L. Smith

Ethics consultation process / Jeffrey Spike

Informed consent, shared decision-making, and the ethics committee / Randall Horton and Howard Brody

Decision-making capacity / Arthur R. Derse

Family dynamics and surrogate decision-making / Lisa Soleymani Lehmann

Confidentiality / Toby Schonfeld

Advance care planning and end-of-life decision-making / Nancy M.P. King and John C. Moskop

Medical futility / Taddeus Mason Pope

Issues in reproduction / Anne Drapkin Lyerly

Ethical issues in neonatology / John D. Lantos

Ethical issues in pediatrics / D. Micah Hester

Ethics committees and distributive justice / Nancy S. Jecker

Developing effective ethics policy / Anne Lederman Flamm

Implementing policy to the wider community / Mary Faith Marshall and Joan Liaschenko

Ethics in and for the organization / Mary V. Rorty

The healthcare ethics committee as educator / Kathy Kinlaw

Education as prevention / Kayhan Parsi

Understanding ethics pedagogy / Felicia Cohn.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-139-50780-X

1-107-22395-4

9786613684646

1-139-51477-6

1-139-51642-6

1-139-51384-2

1-280-77387-1

1-139-51734-1

1-139-51827-5

0-511-84644-4

OCLC:

795895614