The Ethics of Health Care is your guide to understanding the essentials of ethical health care practice. Providing a balanced background in value development and ethical theories, this text introduces the reader to the basic principles and language of the sometimes controversial ethics of health care.
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Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Human Value Development Chapter 2: Decision Making in Value Issues Chapter 3: Basic Principles of Health Care Ethics Chapter 4: The Nature of Rights in Ethical Discourse Chapter 5: Confidentiality and the Management of Health Care Information Chapter 6: Professional Gatekeeping as a Function of Role Fidelity Chapter 7: Autonomy vs. Paternalism: A Contest Between Virtues Chapter 8: Justics and the Allocation of Scarce Resources Chapter 9: Withholding and Withdrawing Life Support Chapter 10: Euthanasia: Practice and Principles Chapter 11: Reproductive Issues Chapter 12: AIDS and Health Care Practice Chapter 13: Ethical Issues and Genetic Science Chapter 14: Transcultural Health
Professor Raymond S. Edge, EdD, RRT is the author of several textbooks on health care ethics and law. During an academic career extending over three decades, he served as a dean and full professor at several major universities where in addition to teaching and administrative duties, he established faculty and student educational exchange programs with the People's Republic of China and traveled and lectured extensively in that nation. Since retiring from university teaching and administration, he has pursued his passion for regional history and culture, completing a three-book archeological fiction series based on actual Mississippi River sites and artifacts. His 2015 S: MEMOIR OF AN ICONIC GENTLEMAN recently won a silver book award in the category of best seasonal book.
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