Ethics and Law for the Health Professions

4. New Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-86287-909-6
Verlag: Federation Press

Buch, Englisch, 700 Seiten, Format (B × H): 169 mm x 243 mm, Gewicht: 1602 g

Ethics and Law for the Health Professions is a cross-disciplinary, medico-legal book whose previous editions have been widely used by students, teachers and practitioners in the health professions and in law.
This fourth edition has been extensively revised and updated to take account of developments in law, biomedical science, healthcare delivery and bioethics. Sections dealing with critical reasoning, problem solving, professionalism, negligence, standards of care, public health and the emerging biosciences have been considerably expanded and entirely new chapters dealing with sexuality, culture, rural health, evidence and global health have been added.
As with previous editions, the fourth edition of Ethics and Law for the Health Professions focuses on issues that are relevant both to clinicians and to health-policy-makers. It combines insights from philosophy, bioethics and the health social sciences, biomedical research data and case law. Importantly, this book recognises that health professionals must understand both the ethical and legal implications of their practice -but is careful to distinguish between the two.
This book provides an invaluable resource for those who are responsible for the design and delivery of health care and for those who have an interest in how health care can best meet the needs and reflect the values of the community.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kerridge, Ian

Lowe, Michael

Stewart, Cameron

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizinrecht, Gesundheitsrecht
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Angewandte Ethik & Soziale Verantwortung Medizinische Ethik
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizinische Ethik
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Beziehungen des Rechts zu anderen Disziplinen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1: Introduction to Ethics and Law: What is Ethics?; Ethical Theories and Concepts; Relativism and Pluralism; Introduction to Law. Part 2: Critical Thinking and Problem Solving in Ethics and Law: Critical Thinking in Biomedical Ethics and Law; Evidence, Health, Ethics and Law; Principle-based Ethics; Problem Solving in Clinical Ethics and Law. Part 3: Core Topics in Ethics and Health Law: Professionalism; Trust, Standards of Care, Error and Negligence; The Student in the Health-Care Environment; Nursing; Truth-Telling (Veracity); Confidentiality and Record-Keeping; Consent; Impairments of Decision-Making Capacity; Treatment and Non-Treatment Issues: The Limits of Medical Care; CPR and No-CPR Orders; Sexuality; Reproduction; Abortion; Children; People with Mental Illness; The Elderly; End-of-Life Care: Palliative Care, Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide; The Donation and Transplantation of Organs and Tissues; Post-Coma Unresponsiveness and Brain Death; Biomedical Research; Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM); Drugs and Drug Companies. Part 4: Health Ethics, Law and Society: Public Health; Infectious Diseases; Ethics and Chronic Disease; Culture; Rural Health and Ethics; Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health; Global Health; Resource Allocation; Health Care, Animals and the Environment. Part 5: The Challenge of Emerging Technologies: Genetics and Genomic Medicine; Biotechnology and the Emergent Biosciences.