Practical Decision Making in Health Care Ethics: Cases, Concepts, and the Virtue of Prudence: Cases, Concepts, and the Virtue of Prudence, Fourth Edition - Hardcover

Devettere, Raymond J.

 
9781626162778: Practical Decision Making in Health Care Ethics: Cases, Concepts, and the Virtue of Prudence: Cases, Concepts, and the Virtue of Prudence, Fourth Edition
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1626162778 ISBN 13: 9781626162778
Publisher: Georgetown University Press, 2016

Synopsis

This is a new edition of a classic textbook in health care ethics, one that offers an alternative to the principle-based approach from Beauchamp and Childress (Principles of Biomedical Ethics, now in its seventh edition from OUP) and traditional Catholic approaches of Ashley and O'Rourke. In the early chapters Devettere spells out the meaning of ethics and the importance of prudential reasoning in seeking the good life. The rest of the book deals with issues and cases, including determinations of life and death, reproduction and research and genetics, and the distribution of health care. In this fourth edition Devettere updates all chapters and adds new cases and new sections on the following: neuroscience, social psychology, overriding advance directives, studies on the fetus, the palliative care movement, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, pharmacists and reproductive issues, prenatal life and abortion, neonatal testing and mandatory vaccinations, the US governments' STD research in Guatemala, the emergence of biobanks, facial transplantations, genetic testing, legal issues around the Affordable Care Act, and more. This is an accessible and comprehensive textbook covering all aspects of the field.

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About the Author

Raymond J. Devettere is a professor of philosophy at Emmanuel College where he directs the values-based education program and serves on the institutional review board. He taught health care ethics at Boston College for twenty-five years and is a member of the institutional review board at Newton-Wellesley Hospital.

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Publisher
Georgetown University Press
Publication date
2016
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1626162778
ISBN 13 
9781626162778
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
4
Number of pages
592

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