Health Care Ethics: Lessons from Intensive Care - Couverture souple

Melia, Kath M.

 
9780761971450: Health Care Ethics: Lessons from Intensive Care
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0761971459 ISBN 13 : 9780761971450
Editeur : SAGE Publications Ltd, 2004

Synopsis

Health Care Ethics examines the way ethical dilemmas are played out in everyday clinical practice and argues for an approach to ethical decision-making which focuses more on patient needs than competing professional interests.

While advances in medical science and technology have improved the ability to save and prolong lives, they have also given rise to fundamental questions about what constitutes life and personhood, especially in the context of what are termed 'persistent vegetative state' and 'brain death'. Drawing on the example of intensive care where such questions feature strongly in everyday practice, Kath M Melia examines how decisions are taken within the context of multiprofessional teamworking, including

· whether to admit a patient and commence treatment

· what the aim of treatment should be (i.e. palliation, care or cure)

· when to limit, withhold or withdraw treatment

· when to donate organs.

As an area in which different professional groups work closely together, the author argues that there are lessons to be learnt from intensive care which can be applied to ethical decision making in all areas of health care for the greater good of patients.

The book makes a significant contribution to the literature on ethics in health care and to the development of ethical decision making which prioritises the needs of patients. It is essential reading for ethicists, sociologists and health care professionals.

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À propos de l?auteur

Kath Melia is Professor of Nursing, University of Edinbugh and author of Nursing Ethics, 4e (with Ian Thompson and Kenneth Boyd; Churchill Livingstone).

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Health Care Ethics

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Éditeur
SAGE Publications Ltd
Date d'édition
2004
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0761971459
ISBN 13 
9780761971450
Reliure
Broché
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
160
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
non disponible

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9780761971443: Health Care Ethics: Lessons from Intensive Care

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0761971440 ISBN 13 :  9780761971443
Editeur : SAGE Publications Inc, 2004
Couverture rigide