Ethics of Health Care: A Guide for Clinical Practice
By Raymond S. Edge, J. Randall Groves
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Designed for students pursuing careers in a variety of health care programs, ETHICS OF HEALTH CARE: A GUIDE FOR CLINICAL PRACTICE, 4e, delivers an excellent background in legal and ethical theory while emphasizing critical thinking, problem solving, and professional behavior. The 4th edition has been completely updated to modernize content and streamline its focus to reflect the needs of today’s health care students. The first four chapters provide foundational knowledge students need to understand the legal system and ethical theory as it relates to health care practice. Building on these concepts, readers explore ethical and legal health care controversies through a wide variety of issues such as reproductive health, organ donation, physician assisted dying, just allocation of health care, cloning and genetics, and human enhancements. Legal and ethical case studies, current news stories, and problems stimulate discussion and thought. By teaching the language of the legal system and biomedical ethics and focusing on critical thinking skills, the text equips students with the tools to make sound legal and ethical decisions.
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Designed for students pursuing careers in a variety of health care programs, ETHICS OF HEALTH CARE: A GUIDE FOR CLINICAL PRACTICE, 4e, delivers an excellent background in legal and ethical theory while emphasizing critical thinking, problem solving, and professional behavior. The 4th edition has been completely updated to modernize content and streamline its focus to reflect the needs of today’s health care students. The first four chapters provide foundational knowledge students need to understand the legal system and ethical theory as it relates to health care practice. Building on these concepts, readers explore ethical and legal health care controversies through a wide variety of issues such as reproductive health, organ donation, physician assisted dying, just allocation of health care, cloning and genetics, and human enhancements. Legal and ethical case studies, current news stories, and problems stimulate discussion and thought. By teaching the language of the legal system and biomedical ethics and focusing on critical thinking skills, the text equips students with the tools to make sound legal and ethical decisions.
Objectives: Each chapter begins with instructional objectives designed to help readers focus on the main ideas.
Key Terms: A list of key terms is provided for each chapter. Key terms are highlighted with boldface type when they first appear in the text to alert students to important concepts as they are introduced. The glossary defining these key terms is at the end of the book.
Case Studies: Found throughout the chapters, these scenarios mirror real-world practice and are followed by critical thinking questions that help students synthesize information.
Legal Case Studies: Drawing from actual legal cases, hands-on case studies throughout the book encourage students to reflect on the laws that impact health care decisions.
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Chapter 1. Introduction: Obligations of a ProfessionalPreview this chapter
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