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OverviewEthics and Law for the Health Professions is a cross-disciplinary medico-legal book whose previous editions have been widely used in the medical world. This new 3rd edition is fully revised with all ethics and law topics updated to reflect recent developments. New chapters include dealing specifically with children, health care and the environment, infectious diseases, public health, and ethics and chronic disease. All law sections have been extensively re-visited by Dr Cameron Stewart. Its special features are its focus on a clinically relevant approach, and its recognition that health care professionals are often confronted by legal issues and ethical issues at the same time. Health professionals have to satisfy both, and their legal advisers need to be aware of the dilemmas this can present. This book is careful to distinguish between ethics and law. Its chapters take account of all the health professions, and their differing responsibilities, and cover a very wide range of the issues they face. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Michael Lowe , Ian Kerridge , Cameron StewartPublisher: Federation Press Imprint: Federation Press Edition: 3rd edition ISBN: 9781862877306ISBN 10: 1862877300 Pages: 928 Publication Date: 02 March 2009 Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Available from one of our local or international suppliers.  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. Table of ContentsPreface Introduction What is Ethics? Ethical Theories and Concepts Relativism and PluralismIntroduction to Law Introduction to Principle-Based Ethics Clinical Ethics and Ethical Decision-MakingProfessionalismStandards of Care, Errors and Negligence The Student in the Health-Care Environment NursingTruth-Telling (Veracity)Confidentiality and Record-KeepingImpairments of Decision-Making CapacityConsentTreatment and Non-Treatment Issues: The Limits of Medical Care CPR and No-CPR OrdersGenetics and BiotechnologySexuality and ReproductionAbortionChildrenPeople with Mental IllnessEthics and Chronic DiseaseThe ElderlyPost-Coma Unresponsiveness and Brain DeathOrgan Donation and TransplantationEnd-of-Life Care: Palliative Care, Euthanasiaand Assisted SuicidePublic HealthInfectious DiseasesAboriginal and Torres Strait Islander HealthResource Allocation and International HealthBiomedical ResearchHealth Care, Animals and the EnvironmentComplementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM)The Pharmaceutical IndustryTable of CasesTable of Statutes IndexReviewsPreface Introduction What is Ethics? Ethical Theories and Concepts Relativism and Pluralism Introduction to Law Introduction to Principle-Based Ethics Clinical Ethics and Ethical Decision-Making Professionalism Standards of Care, Errors and Negligence The Student in the Health-Care Environment Nursing Truth-Telling (Veracity) Confidentiality and Record-Keeping Impairments of Decision-Making Capacity Consent Treatment and Non-Treatment Issues: The Limits of Medical Care CPR and No-CPR Orders Genetics and Biotechnology Sexuality and Reproduction Abortion Children People with Mental Illness Ethics and Chronic Disease The Elderly Post-Coma Unresponsiveness and Brain Death Organ Donation and Transplantation End-of-Life Care: Palliative Care, Euthanasiaand Assisted Suicide Public Health Infectious Diseases Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Resource Allocation and International Health Biomedical Research Health Care, Animals and the Environment Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) The Pharmaceutical Industry Table of Cases Table of Statutes Index In 1979, the American authors Tom L Beauchamp and James F Childress published the first edition of Principles of Biomedical Ethics. They espoused the theory of what has come to be known as principlism as a bridge between the deontological and utilitarian approaches to bioethics. They identified four central values - autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence and justice - as the fundamental moral principles in terms of which to address ethical dilemmas in biomedical theory and practice. Since 1979, Principles of Biomedical Ethics has gone through five editions, and has become a virtually magisterial text, at least in the English speaking world. Ethics and Law for the Health Professions bids fair to become equally magisterial in the Australian context. Now in its second edition, it too espoused the principlist approach to bioethical issues, but, like its American counterpart, it acknowledges also the significance of other subsidiary values - professional integrity, veracity, confidentiality, privacy and fiduciary responsibility - to mention but a few. Ethics and Law for the Health Professions professes to be an introductory text in bioethics and law. It can be used as a teaching resource or as a handbook. It is both comprehensive and detailed, and although the average length of each of its thirty-one chapters is only twenty pages, there is sufficient substance in each chapter both to outline the issues involved and to point towards a resolution. Not everyone - including this reviewer - will agree with all the resolutions. A liberal individualist view of autonomy and a utilitarian assessment of beneficence tend to hold sway, but other perspectives are carefully examined, and a fair and very up-to- date selection of references is appended to the end of each chapter. What is particularly to be commended is the structure of the text. The separation of ethics and law in each chapter underlines a very important distinction when addressing these issues. Otherwise the legal decisions can be accepted as putting an end to ethical debate. Further, the hot topics of euthanasia, abortion, IVF, stem cell research, etc., are addressed in the latter third of the book, and to this degree need to be seen against the general ethical and legal theories which are discussed in the first third, and the procedural values - veracity, confidentiality, professionalism, etc. - which occupy the middle chapters. There are special chapters on various classes of patients: the elderly; Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders; and those suffering from mental illness and post-coma unresponsiveness and the authors do not resile from presenting strong challenges to contemporary ethical practice, especially in the chapters on organ donation and brain death, experimentation in animals, resource allocation, complementary and alternative medicine and the pharmaceutical industry. In all, this is an excellent text, and I am sure, like its American counterpart, it will go through many editions. - William J Uren SJ, Australian Health Review, Vol 29 No 3, August 2005 Author InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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