Guidance for Healthcare Ethics Committees
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Guidance for Healthcare Ethics Committees

  1. 202 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Guidance for Healthcare Ethics Committees

About this book

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.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2012
Print ISBN
9780521279871
eBook ISBN
9781139511964
Topic
Medicine
Subtopic
Ethics in Medicine

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Guidance for Healthcare Ethics Committees
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Contributors
  8. Preface
  9. Chapter 1: Introduction to healthcare ethics committees
  10. Chapter 2: Brief introduction to ethics and ethical theory
  11. Chapter 3: Healthcare ethics committees and the law
  12. Chapter 4: Cultural and religious issues in healthcare
  13. Chapter 5: Mission, vision, goals: defining the parameters of ethics consultation
  14. Chapter 6: Ethics consultation process
  15. Chapter 7: Informed consent, shared decision-making, and the ethics committee
  16. Chapter 8: Decision-making capacity
  17. Chapter 9: Family dynamics and surrogate decision-making
  18. Chapter 10: Confidentiality
  19. Chapter 11: Advance care planning and end-of-life decision-making
  20. Chapter 12: Medical futility
  21. Chapter 13: Ethical issues in reproduction
  22. Chapter 14: Ethical issues in neonatology
  23. Chapter 15: Ethical issues in pediatrics
  24. Chapter 16: Ethics committees and distributive justice
  25. Chapter 17: Developing effective ethics policy
  26. Chapter 18: Implementing policy to the wider community
  27. Chapter 19: Ethics in and for the organization
  28. Chapter 20: The healthcare ethics committee as educator
  29. Chapter 21: Education as prevention
  30. Chapter 22: Understanding ethics pedagogy
  31. Index

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