Health Care Ethics: Critical Issues for the 21st Century (eBook)

Rachel Ellison, Eileen E. Morrison (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025
300 Seiten
Jones & Bartlett Learning (Verlag)
978-1-284-28340-2 (ISBN)

Infos

Focused on today's critical issues from an ethical standpoint, Health Care Ethics: Critical Issues for the 21st Century, Fifth Edition brings together the insights of a diverse panel of leading experts in the fields of bioethics, long-term care, and health administration, and more, to examine the key issues for individuals, organizations, and society. The early chapters of this thought-provoking book offer readers a solid understanding of healthcare ethics, covering the fundamental principles and theories that underpin healthcare ethics. Later chapters shift the focus to the pressing issues of our time, such as autonomy, the patient's right to choose, health inequities, health inequality, COVID-19, and ethical decision-making. These chapters also introduce the ethical theories, their application, and the principles that guide them. New discussion on the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade and the future of IVF and infertilityThe role of technology in health care considering Chat GPT and other AI Technologies - from how they'll be used and to what extent to safety, privacy and ethical considerations.New and expanded discussion of COVID-19 and the ethics of epidemics, pandemics and endemics.Clear differentiation between intimate partner violence and domestic violence.Discussion questions at the end of each chapter and "e;Think About This"e; boxes throughout require students to think critically about important issues. Healthcare ethics or healthcare ethics and law courses in health care management, nursing, health sciences, medicine, and more. (c) 2026 | 300 pages

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.1.2025
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Finanz- / Wirtschaftsmathematik
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Medizinrecht
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management
• ISBN-10: 1-284-28340-2 / 1284283402
• ISBN-13: 978-1-284-28340-2 / 9781284283402