Health Care Ethics

By Thomas M. Garrett, Rosellen M. Garrett, John M. McGeehan, et al.

Book Overview

Provides students with tools to identify the problems in heath care.

Health Care Ethics is aclear, accessible text/reference that explores the full range of contemporary issues in health care ethics from a practical wisdom approach. The authors present the fundamental concerns of modern medical ethics---autonomy, beneficence, justice, and confidentiality---and then provide analysis, cases, and insights from professional literature to discuss them. Throughout, the discussion starts with larger issues or concepts and principles and then focuses on specific problems or complications.

Learning Goals

Upon completing this book, readers will be able to:

Identify the problems in health care ranging from end of life issues to testing and research. Develop a more well-rounded understanding of cultural traditions that are not a part of the mainstream discussion of American medical ethics. Analyze the various views on health care ethics.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0205257119
• ISBN13: 9780205257119
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: Pearson
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Eye Opening Topic

Bought this book for an online class and it was very useful and easy to work with. It comprehensively covered such difficult topics as death and dying, maternal-fetal conflict, artificial insemination, transplants and biomedical research. Through working with this book I was better able to understand autonomy and informed consent and beneficence and nonmaleficence and the professional standards of confidentially and professional ethic standards.

Great book with the right instructor

I found this book to be easy to read and used it with an online class. With the supplements the instructor provided, I was able to easily get through this online course.