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Fourth Edition
By
Ruth Purtilo, PhD, FAPTA, Professor and Director of Ethics Initiative, MGH Institute of Health Professions, Boston, MA
Description
Carefully written to ensure successful use by all health care professionals, Ethical Dimensions in the Health Professions is still the
only cross-disciplinary ethics book available. The new 4th edition of this bestselling title helps readers think critically and thoughtfully
about ethical decisions they face in practice. Utilizing a unique 6-step decision making process designed by the author, this text provides
an expert framework for making for making effective decisions.
Contents
I. Introduction to Ethical Dimensions in the Health Professions
1. Morality and Ethics: What Are They and Why Do They Matter?
2.
The Ethical Goal of Professional Practice and Prototypes of Ethical Problems
3. Ethics Theories and Approaches: All You Need to Know
4. A Six-Step Process of Ethical Decision Making in Arriving at a Caring Response
II. Ethical Dimensions of Professional Roles
5. Surviving Student Life Ethically
6. Surviving Professional Life Ethically
7. Living Ethically within Health Care Organizations
8.
Living Ethically as a Member of the Health Care Team
III. Ethical Dimensions of the Professional-Patient Relationship
9. Why
Honor Confidentiality?
10. Why So Much Emphasis on Truth Telling?
11. Why Care About Informed Consent?
IV. Ethical Dimensions
of Chronic and End-of-Life Care
12. The Growing Ethical Challenges of Chronic and Long Term Care
13. Ethical Issues in End-of-Life
Care
V. Ethical Dimensions of the Social Context of Health Care
14. Distributive Justice: Clinical Sources of Claims for Health
Care
15. Compensatory Justice: Social Sources of Claims for Health Care
16. Good Citizenship and Your Professional Role: Life As
Opportunity
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Paperback, 320 pages, publication date: JAN-2005
ISBN-13: 978-0-7216-0243-1
ISBN-10: 0-7216-0243-6
Imprint: SAUNDERS
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Last update: 10 Sep 2009
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