Buch, Englisch, 168 Seiten, Format (B × H): 173 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 454 g
Buch, Englisch, 168 Seiten, Format (B × H): 173 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 454 g
ISBN: 978-0-85702-929-4
Verlag: Sage Publications
The social, legal and professional regulation context is brought into the discussion throughout, to equip students with the knowledge that they need to make clinical decisions.
Topics covered include:
- Beauchamp and Childress' four principles of bioethics
- Rights
- Personal and individual conscience
- Moral philosophy
- The virtues/virtue ethics of the practitioner.
This book will be essential reading for pre-registration nursing students taking modules in ethics and law. It will also be a valuable text for postgraduates and qualified nurses, and students of health who need to gain an appreciation of ethics.
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Introduction
Principles at the Root of Ethical Debate
Nursing and Healthcare Ethics - the Sociological Perspective
Individual Conscience Approach to Ethics
Kantian Ethics - Duty-Based Theory
Ethics and the Law
Utilitarianism - Greatest Happiness Theory
Rights-based Ethics
Virtue Ethics and Professional Regulation
Concluding Thoughts