ETHICS OF HEALTH CARE A GUIDE FOR CLINICAL PRACTICE
Author: Raymond Edge, EdD, RRT, John Groves, PhD
Publisher: Delmar Cengage Learning
Publication Date: 2006
Publisher: Delmar Cengage Learning
Publication Date: 2006
ISBN 10: 1401861830
ISBN 13: 9781401861834
Edition: 3rd
ISBN 13: 9781401861834
Edition: 3rd
Description:
Ethics of Health Care: A Guide for Clinical Practice, 3E is designed to guide health care students and practitioners through a wide variety of areas involving ethical controversies. It provides a background in value development and ethical theories, including numerous real-life examples to stimulate discussion and thought.
Table of Contents
Front Matter
Introduction
Human Value Development
Decision Making in Value Issues
Basic Principles of Health Care Ethics
The Nature of Rights in Ethical Discourse
Confidentiality and the Management of Health Care Information
Professional Gatekeeping as a Function of Role Fidelity
Autonomy vs. Paternalism: A Contest Between Virtues
Justice and the Allocation of Scarce Resources
Withholding and Withdrawing Life Support
- GOAL
- OBJECTIVES
- KEY TERMS
- BIOLOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL LIFE
- REDEFINING THE CONCEPT OF LIFE
- BRAIN DEATH
- PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATES
- ORDINARY AND EXTRAORDINARY CARE
- PERSONHOOD
- ADVANCED DIRECTIVES
- PROXY DECISION-MAKING STANDARDS
- INFORMED NONCONSENT
- DNR ORDERS (DO NOT RESUSCITATE)
- BABY DOE
- THE BORN ALIVE INFANT PROTECTION ACT
- ORGAN DONATION
- CONCLUSION
- KEY CONCEPTS
- REVIEW EXERCISES
Euthanasia: Practice and Principles
Reproductive Issues
- GOAL
- OBJECTIVES
- KEY TERMS
- THE ABORTION ISSUE
- THE LEGAL DEBATE
- THE MORAL ISSUES
- POLITICAL TACTICS: CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE AT THE CLINIC
- TRADITIONALISM VS. MODERNISM
- ABORTION AND THE FREEDOM OF RELIGION
- THE ENVIRONMENTAL PERSPECTIVE
- THE FAMILY PLANNING PERSPECTIVE
- IN VITRO FERTILIZATION
- SURROGACY
- CONCLUSION
- KEY CONCEPTS
- REVIEW EXERCISES
AIDS and Health Care Practice
- GOAL
- OBJECTIVES
- KEY TERMS
- ETHICAL ISSUES OF AIDS
- INFECTION CONTROL METHODS
- OCCUPATIONAL RISK
- ETHICAL ISSUES AND THE AIDS EPIDEMIC
- DUTY TO TREAT
- CONFIDENTIALITY IN AN AGE OF AIDS
- MANDATORY TESTING
- THE INFECTED HEALTH WORKER
- EXPERIMENTAL TREATMENT
- GLOBAL EPIDEMIC
- CONCLUSION
- KEY CONCEPTS
- REVIEW EXERCISES
Ethical Issues and Genetic Manipulation
- GOAL
- OBJECTIVES
- KEY TERMS
- THE HUMAN GENOME PROJECT AND MEDICAL PROGRESS
- GENETICS AS SOCIAL POLICY
- GENETIC ENGINEERING
- GENETIC TESTING
- THE ROLE OF PARENTS
- THE POLITICS OF SCREENING
- RECOMBINANT DNA RESEARCH
- GENETIC PHARMACY
- GENE THERAPY
- THE GENETIC CAUSES OF BEHAVIOR
- CLONING
- POSTHUMANISM
- CONCLUSION
- KEY CONCEPTS
- REVIEW EXERCISES
Culturally Appropriate Health Care
- GOAL
- OBJECTIVES
- KEY TERMS
- THE E PLURIBUS IMPERATIVE
- TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE
- EASTERN AND WESTERN TRADITIONAL PRINCIPLES
- REVOLUTIONARY SOCIALISM AND CHINESE HEALTH CARE
- FISCAL REFORM AND CHINESE HEALTH CARE
- INDIAN MEDICAL ETHICS
- MUSLIM PATIENTS
- CONCLUSION
- KEY CONCEPTS
- REVIEW EXERCISES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
APPENDIX Codes of Professional Ethics: Selected Health Professions
Glossary
Topics within this title:
- Act utilitarianism
- Active euthanasia
- acupuncture
- Ad litem
- Advanced directives
- Agape
- AIDS
- Allele
- altruism
- amoral
- Authentic decision
- autonomy
- beneficence
- Benevolent deception
- Best-interest standard
- Biographical life
- Biological life
- Born Alive Infant Protection Act
- Brain dead
- categorical imperative
- Clear and convincing evidence standard
- Cognitive sapient state
- competency
- Conceptus
- confidentiality
- Consequence-oriented system
- Contractarian theory
- Correlative obligations
- Culture Shock
- deontological
- Disparaging
- Distributive justice
- Divine command ethics
- DNR (do not resuscitate) orders
- DNR orders
- Do not resuscitate order
- dominant gene
- Double effect
- Duty-oriented system (deontological perspective)
- Egalitarianism
- Egocentric
- embryo
- EMTALA
- Equal consideration of interest
- Ethical dilemmas
- Ethical, legal, professional etiquette
- ethics
- Ethnocentric
- Eugenics
- euthanasia
- fetus
- Fiduciary relationship
- Filial piety
- Formal justice
- Futile care
- Gaming the system
- Gatekeeping
- Gene therapy
- Genetic carriers
- Genetic disease
- Genetic predisposition
- Genetic screening
- Genome
- Harm principle
- Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
- Hedonism
- Heterozygous
- High-risk behaviors
- HIPAA
- holistic
- hospice movement
- Imperfect obligation
- informed consent
- Institutional review boards
- Involuntary euthanasia
- justice
- Legal requirements
- Legal rights
- Libertarianism
- managed care
- Mass action
- Material justice
- Material risk
- mean
- Medical utility
- Melting pot
- Mercy killing
- Moral duty
- Moral option
- morality
- Moxibustion
- Natural rights
- Nihilism
- nonmaleficence
- Ordinary and extraordinary care
- Original position
- palliative care
- parens patriae
- passive euthanasia
- paternalism
- Patient advocate
- Patient Self-Determination) Act of 1990
- Patient-centered standard
- Perfect obligation
- Persistent vegetative state
- Person
- Personhood
- Placebos
- Posthumanism
- Principle of double effect
- Principle of utility
- Professional autonomy
- Professional Codes of Ethics
- Professional community standard
- Professional Ethics
- PSDA
- Quickening
- Reasonable patient standard
- recessive gene
- Recombinant DNA
- Regenerative medicine
- Relativism
- Right to privacy
- Rights
- Role fidelity
- Rule utilitarianism
- Safe harbor rules
- Safe sex
- scope of practice
- Social utility
- Speciesism
- Standard Precautions
- Standpoint theory
- Stem cells
- Substituted-judgment standard
- teleological
- Therapeutic privilege
- Third-party payers
- triage
- utilitarianism
- utilization review
- Value
- Value cohort
- veracity
- Viability
- Voluntary euthanasia
- Worldview
- Xenografting
- Xenophobic
- zygote
- Zygote (multicelled zygote)