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Handbook for health care ethics committees
- Author
- Post, Linda Farber, author.
- Title
- Handbook for health care ethics committees / Linda Farber Post and Jeffrey Blustein.
- Format
- Book
- Edition
- Second edition.
- Published
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015.
- Description
- xiii, 413 pages ; 26 cm
- Other contributors
- Blustein, Jeffrey, author.
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
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- Curriculum for ethics committees
- Ethical foundations of clinical practice
- Decision making and decisional capacity in adults
- Informed consent and refusal
- Truth telling : disclosure, privacy, and confidentiality
- Special decision-making concerns of minors
- Ethical issues in reproduction
- Special decision-making concerns of the elderly
- Ethical issues in the care of disabled persons
- End-of-life issues
- Palliation
- Justice, health, and access to health care
- Organizational ethics
- The creation, nature, and functioning of ethics committees
- Profile of ethics committees
- Clinical ethics consultation
- Ethics education
- Sample clinical cases
- Sample policies and procedures
- Organizational codes of ethics
- Key legal cases
- An ethics committee meeting.
- Subject headings
- Medical ethics committees--Handbooks, manuals, etc. Medical ethics. Bioethics.
- Medical subjects
- Ethics Committees, Clinical--ethics. Bioethical Issues. Ethics, Clinical.
- Genre heading
- Handbooks and manuals.
- ISBN
- 9781421416571 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1421416573 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9781421416588 (electronic) 1421416581 (electronic)