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Ethical Dimensions in the Health Professions, 4th Edition
By Ruth B Purtilo, PhD, FAPTA
Approx. 320 pages, Copyright 2005
Description
Carefully written to ensure successful use by all health care professionals, Ethical Dimensions in the Health Professions is still the only cross-disciplinary ethics book available. The new 4th edition of this bestselling title helps readers think critically and thoughtfully about ethical decisions they face in practice. Utilizing a unique 6-step decision making process designed by the author, this text provides an expert framework for making for making effective decisions.
Key Features
Questions and answers are positioned throughout the text to encourage critical thinking and enforce the interactive approach.
Presents Western and non-Western sources of ethical thought, and case studies reflect a diversity of practitioners, settings, and cultures
Discusses traditional normative theories in additional to newer approaches
Features in every chapter include: objectives, new terms and ideas presented in the chapter; a list of topics in the chapter that were introduced in earlier chapters; case stories with diverse practice settings and practitioner types to appeal to a broad audience; summary boxes that synthesize key ideas; reflection boxes with answer blanks to indicate important concepts and encourage students to think critically about the material presented; fill in the blank questions in the text to further knowledge acquisition and retention; a summary paragraph at the end of the chapter; and questions for thought and discussion
New to this Edition
Weaves the 6-step ethical decision-making process more consistently throughout the text
Reflects recent changes in health care, society, and ethics, and provides information on ethical issues based on new medical and high-tech discoveries
Features expanded and updated case studies, with several new cases presented, further enforcing the interactive and dynamic approach
Provides new information on the law-ethics relationship, showing how ethics are interdependent with legal issues
Table of Contents
I. Introduction to Ethical Dimensions in the Health Professions 1. Morality and Ethics: What Are They and Why Do They Matter? 2. The Ethical Goal of Professional Practice and Prototypes of Ethical Problems 3. Ethics Theories and Approaches: All You Need to Know 4. A Six-Step Process of Ethical Decision Making in Arriving at a Caring Response II. Ethical Dimensions of Professional Roles 5. Surviving Student Life Ethically 6. Surviving Professional Life Ethically 7. Living Ethically within Health Care Organizations 8. Living Ethically as a Member of the Health Care Team III. Ethical Dimensions of the Professional-Patient Relationship 9. Why Honor Confidentiality? 10. Why So Much Emphasis on Truth Telling? 11. Why Care About Informed Consent? IV. Ethical Dimensions of Chronic and End-of-Life Care 12. The Growing Ethical Challenges of Chronic and Long Term Care 13. Ethical Issues in End-of-Life Care V. Ethical Dimensions of the Social Context of Health Care 14. Distributive Justice: Clinical Sources of Claims for Health Care 15. Compensatory Justice: Social Sources of Claims for Health Care 16. Good Citizenship and Your Professional Role: Life As Opportunity
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