Handbook for rural health care ethics
Subtitle: a practical guide for professionals
By: edited by William A. Nelson
Contributors: Dartmouth Medical College. Dept. of Community and Family Medicine
Publisher: University Press of New England
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Lebanon, NH
Language: eng
Number of pages: 361
ISBN-13: 9781584659587
Subjects: Medical ethics; Rural health; Rural health services; Ethics; Case studies
Other titles: Rural health care ethics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

Also available online.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / William A. Nelson; title: A landscape view of life and health care in rural settings / Angeline Bushy; title: The ethical life of rural health care professionals / Ruth B. Purtilo; title: "Doing" ethics in rural health care institutions / Jacqueline J. Glover; title: Ethics conflicts in rural communities: patient-provider relationships / Rachel Davis, Laura Weiss Roberts; title: Ethics conflicts in rural communities: overlapping roles / Andrew Pomerantz; title: Ethics conflicts in rural communities: privacy and confidentiality / Tom Townsend; title: Ethics conflicts in rural communities: shared decision-making / Denise Niemira; title: Ethics conflicts in rural communities: allocation of scarce resources / Paul B. Gardent, Susan A. Reeves; title: Ethics conflicts in rural communities: stigma and illness / Aruna Tummala, Laura Weiss Roberts; title: Ethics conflicts in rural communities: recognizing and disclosing medical errors / Ann Reeman Cook, Helena Hoas; title: Ethics conflicts in rural communities: reproductive health care / Barbara Elliott, Ruth Westra; title: Ethics conflicts in rural communities: health information technology / David A. Fleming; title: Practical strategies for addressing and preventing ethics issues in rural settings / William A. Nelson, Karen E. Schifferdecker; title: Developing rural ethics networks / Lisa Anderson-Shaw, Jacqueline J. Glover; title: Rural health care ethics: a selected bibliography and web sites / Mary Ann Greene; title: Case studies. Ethics conflicts in rural communities: Patient-provider relationships ; Overlapping roles ; Privacy and confidentiality ; Shared decision-making ; Allocation of scarce resources ; Stigma and illness ; End-of-life decision-making ; Recognizing and disclosing medical errors ; Reproductive health care ; Health information technology.