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Title Guidance for healthcare ethics committees / edited by D. Micah Hester, Toby Schonfeld
Published Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press, 2012
©2012
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Contents Introduction to healthcare ethics committees / D. Micah Hester and Toby Schonfeld -- Brief introduction to ethics and ethical theory / D. Micah Hester and Toby Schonfeld -- Ethics committees and the law / Stephen Latham -- Cultural and religious issues in healthcare / Alissa Hurwitz Swota -- Mission, vision, goals : defining the parameters of ethics consultation / Martin L. Smith -- Ethics consultation process / Jeffrey Spike -- Informed consent, shared decision-making, and the ethics committee / Randall Horton and Howard Brody -- Decision-making capacity / Arthur R. Derse -- Family dynamics and surrogate decision-making / Lisa Soleymani Lehmann -- Confidentiality / Toby Schonfeld -- Advance care planning and end-of-life decision-making / Nancy M.P. King and John C. Moskop -- Medical futility / Taddeus Mason Pope -- Issues in reproduction / Anne Drapkin Lyerly -- Ethical issues in neonatology / John D. Lantos -- Ethical issues in pediatrics / D. Micah Hester -- Ethics committees and distributive justice / Nancy S. Jecker -- Developing effective ethics policy / Anne Lederman Flamm -- Implementing policy to the wider community / Mary Faith Marshall and Joan Liaschenko -- Ethics in and for the organization / Mary V. Rorty -- The healthcare ethics committee as educator / Kathy Kinlaw -- Education as prevention / Kayhan Parsi -- Understanding ethics pedagogy / Felicia Cohn
Summary Every accredited American hospital is required to have a mechanism for handling ethical concerns; most hospitals satisfy this requirement by constituting an institutional healthcare ethics committee (HEC), a pattern which is repeated in most western countries. This text provides definitive, comprehensive guidance for members of healthcare ethics committees who find themselves confronted with ethically challenging situations. Each chapter includes learning objectives, clinical case studies and questions to stimulate discussion among committee members. Particular emphasis is given to consultation, as this often presents the greatest challenges to committee members. Each chapter stands alone as a teaching module, as well as forming part of a comprehensive volume. Written and edited by nationally and internationally recognized experts in bioethics, this is essential reading for every member of a healthcare ethics committee
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Medical ethics committees.
Medical ethics.
Hospitals -- Moral and ethical aspects
Ethics Committees, Clinical
Ethics, Medical
Delivery of Health Care -- ethics
Ethics, Clinical
Hospital Administration -- ethics
Practice Guidelines as Topic
MEDICAL -- Ethics.
Hospitals -- Moral and ethical aspects
Medical ethics
Medical ethics committees
Genre/Form dissertations.
Academic theses
Academic theses.
Thèses et écrits académiques.
Form Electronic book
Author Hester, D. Micah, editor.
Schonfeld, Toby, editor.
ISBN 9781139518277
1139518275
1139514776
9781139514774
1280773871
9781280773877
9780511846441
0511846444