Handbook for health care ethics committees /
Post, Linda Farber,author.
Blustein, Jeffrey,author.
"Responding to the growing need for health care ethics committees to provide members with a solid foundation of knowledge about bioethics and its practical applications, this third edition builds on the format and content of its predecessors with updated, comprehensive, reorganized, and entirely new sections, each of which examines ethics committee functions and suggests ways in which committees can be most effective assets to their institutions. It remains the only book to address the singular challenges and needs of health care ethics committees and their members"--
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Ethical foundations of clinical practice -- Decision making and decisional capacity in adults -- Informed consent and refusal -- Truth telling : disclosure, privacy, and confidentiality -- Special decision-making concerns of minors -- Ethical issues in reproduction -- Special decision-making concerns of the elderly -- Ethical issues in the care of disabled persons -- End-of-life issues -- Palliation -- Justice, health, and access to health care -- Organizational ethics -- Ethics committees and research -- Profile of ethics committees -- Clinical ethics consultation -- Ethics education -- Sample clinical cases -- Sample policies and procedures -- Organization codes of ethics -- Key legal cases, legislation and state action -- An ethics committee meeting.
"Responding to the growing need for health care ethics committees to provide members with a solid foundation of knowledge about bioethics and its practical applications, this third edition builds on the format and content of its predecessors with updated, comprehensive, reorganized, and entirely new sections, each of which examines ethics committee functions and suggests ways in which committees can be most effective assets to their institutions. It remains the only book to address the singular challenges and needs of health care ethics committees and their members"--
Medical ethics committees
Medical ethics.
Bioethics.
Ethics Committees, Clinical
Ethics, Clinical
Bioethical Issues
Ethics, Medical
Comités d'éthique clinique
Éthique médicale.
Bioéthique.
MEDICAL / General.
Medical ethics committees.
Bioethics.
Medical ethics.