Bookedited by Eileen Morrison, Beth Furlong.
Summary: Organized around the four central themes of healthcare ethics (theoretical foundations and issues for individuals, organizations, and society), Health Care Ethics, Fourth Edition brings together the insights of a diverse panel of leading experts in the fields of bioethics, long-term care, and health administration, among others. Students will build on this critical platform to develop an extensive toolbox of analytical and problem-solving skills. The fully revised and updated Fourth Edition addresses current changes in health care, including three new chapters covering ethical issues related to Health Information Management, Patient Safety, and Epidemics. All other chapters have been updated to reflect the most recent developments in medical technology and new challenges faced by health care professionals in the era of the ACA.
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
Ethics and aging in America
Healthcare ethics committees : roles, memberships, structure, and difficulties
Ethics in the management of health information systems
Technological advances in health care : blessing or ethics nightmare?
Ethics and safe patient handling and mobility
Spirituality and healthcare organizations
A new era of health care : the ethics of healthcare reform
Health inequalities and health inequities
The ethics of epidemics
Ethics of disasters : planning and response
Domestic violence : changing theory, changing practice
Looking toward the future.