Ethics of Health Care: A Guide for Clinical Practice

By Raymond S. Edge and John Randall Groves

Book Overview

Designed for students pursuing careers in a variety of health care programs, ETHICS OF HEALTH CARE: A GUIDE FOR CLINICAL PRACTICE, 4e, equips you with the tools you need to make legal and ethical decisions in real-world practice. The text teaches you the language of the legal system and biomedical ethics while emphasizing critical thinking, problem solving and professional behavior. The first four chapters provide the foundational knowledge you need to understand the legal system and ethical theory as it relates to health care practice. Later chapters build on these concepts as you explore ethical and legal health care controversies through a wide variety of issues such as reproductive health, organ donation, physician assisted dying, ethical allocation of health care, cloning, genetics, and human enhancements. Each chapter also includes legal and ethical case studies to help you put what you learn into practice.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1285854187
• ISBN13: 9781285854182
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: Cengage Learning
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.0" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Great text book for Health Care providers

This text is a wonderful presentation of how to help prepare to encounter difficult choices and decisions in the health care field. Highly recommended.

A good text for allied health and nursing students.

This is an excellent introduction to health care ethics. Covers theory and principles and ethical decision-making in the first several chapters and the major issues in health care in the remaining chapters. The writers don't bog down in discussing these issues as do some current texts in bioethics. Very readable. Does not have cases so if one uses this for instruction a book with a collection of cases is needed (i.e. Cases Studies in Allied Health Ethics by Veatch and Flack).