The Right Thing: Ten Years of Ethics Columns from the Healthcare Forum Journal - Couverture souple

Friedman, Emily

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 078790225X ISBN 13 : 9780787902254

Editeur : Jossey-Bass Inc.,U.S., 1996

Synopsis

This book, in collaboration with the celebration of the 10 year anniversary of "The Healthcare Forum Journal", features the classic and always provocative columns of healthcare writer Emily Friedman, also featuring new material. This work brings together key writings from one of the USA's foremost commentators on ethics in health care. It is a pragmatic, socially-responsible, and down-to-earth analysis of trends and issues facing professionals and consumers.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Ten Years of Making Choices

Celebrating the tenth anniversary of her column, ?Making Choices?, published in the Healthcare Forum Journal, this volume brings together key writings from Emily Friedman, one of the nation′s foremost commentators on health care policy and ethics.

Friedman offers her views on the gamut of ethics issues. She tackles the moral conflicts affecting nurses, physicians, and other direct caregivers, and examines the health care risks threatening women, children, and persons with HIV. She analyzes the social ethics of child abuse, health care reform, and health policy, uncovers ethical dilemmas in managed care, and looks at organizational ethics issues such as confidentiality of information, ethical marketing, and trusteeship.

This collection of her classic and always provocative columns presents pragmatic, down–to–earth, yet socially responsible analysis of the trends and issues facing health care professionals, patients, and policymakers.

Quatrième de couverture

Celebrating the tenth anniversary of her column, ?Making Choices?, published in the Healthcare Forum Journal, this volume brings together key writings from Emily Friedman, one of the nation′s foremost commentators on health care policy and ethics.Friedman offers her views on the gamut of ethics issues. She tackles the moral conflicts affecting nurses, physicians, and other direct caregivers, and examines the health care risks threatening women, children, and persons with HIV. She analyzes the social ethics of child abuse, health care reform, and health policy, uncovers ethical dilemmas in managed care, and looks at organizational ethics issues such as confidentiality of information, ethical marketing, and trusteeship.This collection of her classic and always provocative columns presents pragmatic, down–to–earth, yet socially responsible analysis of the trAnds and issues facing healthcare professionals, patients, and policymakers.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Jossey-Bass Inc.,U.S.
• Date d'édition: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 078790225X
• ISBN 13: 9780787902254
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 250
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible