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About this book
In order to provide the highest level of care to patients and clients, health professionals need a sound knowledge and understanding of healthcare ethics. Foundations of Healthcare Ethics: Theory to Practice focuses on the philosophical concepts underpinning contemporary ethical discourse for health professionals, and arms both students and professionals with the knowledge to tackle situations of moral uncertainty in clinical practice. Specially written to provide an in-depth study into the theoretical foundations of healthcare ethics, it covers a range of normative ethical theories, from virtue ethics to utilitarianism, while also investigating their application to contemporary issues in health care and society. It provides opportunities for self-directed learning, and presents questions and case studies to facilitate engagement and discussion. Foundations of Healthcare Ethics provides both students and professionals with an understanding of the philosophy governing healthcare ethics in order to help provide a better level of care to patients and clients.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Contents
- List of contributors
- 1 Why study healthcare ethics?
- 2 Ethical theories
- 3 Ethical principlism
- 4 Personhood and human dignity
- 5 Empathy and care
- 6 Healthcare and virtue
- 7 Rationality in utilitarian thought
- 8 Natural law and the sanctity of human life
- 9 Obligations, duties and rights
- 10 A historical analysis of feminism and an application to contemporary healthcare ethics
- 11 Conscience and the healthcare professional
- 12 Is there a right to life and a right to die?
- 13 When does human life begin? A theological, philosophical and scientific analysis
- 14 Autonomy and consent
- 15 The ‘dead donor rule’ and organ donation
- 16 Just care at the end of life
- Index