Textbook of Healthcare Ethics

Citation

(2003), "Textbook of Healthcare Ethics", International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, Vol. 16 No. 1. https://doi.org/10.1108/ijhcqa.2003.06216aae.001

Textbook of Healthcare Ethics

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Textbook of Healthcare Ethics

Loewy, E.H.Kluwer2002ISBN 0 306 46801 8

Textbook of Healthcare Ethics focuses on the social conditions in which medical practice occurs and how ethical healthcare decisions involves nurses, social workers, psychologists, technicians, and patients as well as physicians.

This thoroughly revised and expanded edition addresses historical and theoretical underpinnings and practical concerns.

A series of case studies serve as a guideline for further discussion. The text examines provocative issues such as organ donation, care of the terminally ill, abortion, HIV-positive healthcare professionals, physician-assisted suicide, and experimentation with foetal tissue.