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- Bookedited by John C. Fletcher, Edward M. Spencer, Paul A. Lombardo ; with a foreword by James F. Childress.Summary: The six chapters in the first part of this book provides an overview of clinical ethics, relating it to professional and organizational ethics, to research and psychiatric ethics, and to the legal context in the U.S. The several ethical obligations noted above are developed in the second part of the book, while the third part focuses on ethical problems that arise in particular cases, including reproductive and life-and-death decisions. The new edition is informed by the extensive literature in clinical, ethical, and legal topics relevant to these problmes.
Contents:
Clinical ethics: history, content, and resources / John C. Fletcher and Edward M. Spencer
Professional ethics / Edward M. Spencer
Introduction to organizational ethics / Ann E. Mills and Edward M. Spencer
Law and ethics: an ongoing conversation / Paul A. Lombardo
Research and ethics / Erika Blacksher and Jonathan D. Moreno
Working with Persons who have psychiatric illness / Edmund G. Howe
Privacy and confidentiality / Evan G. DeRenzo
Communicating, truth-telling, and disclosure / Robert J. Boyle
Determining patients' capacity to share in decision making / Robert J. Boyle
The process of informed consent / Robert J. Boyle
Treatment refusals by patients and clinicians / Edmund G. Howe
Death and dying / Charles A. Hite and Mary Faith Marshall
The decision to forgo life-sustaining treatment when the patient is incapacitated / John C. Fletcher and Walter Davis
Newborns, infants, and children / Robert J. Boyle
Ethical issues in reproduction / Cynthia B. Cohen
Healthcare economics: integral aspects of clinical ethics / Edward M. Spencer and Ann E. Mills
Ethics services in healthcare organizations: assuring integrity and quality / John C. Fletcher and Edward M. Spencer.