Ethics for Health Care Oxford University Press (2004)
|Abstract||Ethics for Health Care, 2E takes a novel approach to
learning about and understanding ethics. It draws on practical
experiences and contemporary issues in its exploration of the
ethical choices made in health care. The common theme followed
in the book is that health care ethics are not only about
setting acceptable standards, they are also about reflecting on
what health care professionals should aim towards. It is about
reflecting on optimal standards, and pursuing those standards.
In focusing on the interaction between the health provider and
his or her client, the book skillfully incorporates individual
and group exercises to help the reader think about particular
issues or standards, or particular styles of ethical reflection.
Tutorial-type triggers and case studies are also included. Over
fifty of these exercises, twenty-four of them new to this
edition, assist in developing familiarity with the key ways of
identifying, and working to reso