Guidance for Healthcare Ethics Committees

Name: Guidance for Healthcare Ethics Committees
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ISBN: 9780521279871

ISBN-10: 0521279879

ISBN-13: 9780521279871

Edition: 2012

Authors: D. Micah Hester, Toby Schonfeld

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Every accredited American hospital is required to have a mechanism for handling ethical concerns; most hospitals satisfy this requirement by constituting an institutional healthcare ethics committee (HEC), a pattern which is repeated in most western countries. This text provides definitive, comprehensive guidance for members of healthcare ethics committees who find themselves confronted with ethically challenging situations. Each chapter includes learning objectives, clinical case studies and questions to stimulate discussion among committee members. Particular emphasis is given to consultation, as this often presents the greatest challenges to committee members. Each chapter stands alone…

Book details

List price: $126.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 8/2/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 196
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.17" long x 0.35" tall
Weight: 0.858
Language: English

Toby Schonfeld is Associate Professor of Medicine at Emory University and Director of the Masters of Arts in Bioethics Program, Center for Ethics, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA.



Preface



The Context of Healthcare Ethics




Introduction to healthcare ethics committees




Brief introduction to ethics and ethical theory




Ethics committees and the law




Cultural and religious issues in health care




Consultation



Mission, vision, goals: defining the parameters of the ethics consultation




Ethics consultation process




Informed consent, shared decision making, and the ethics committee




Decision-making capacity




Family dynamics and surrogate decision making Lisa




Confidentiality




Advance care planning and end-of-life decision making Nancy




Medical futility Thaddeus




Ethical issues in reproduction




Ethical issues in neonatology




Ethical issues in pediatrics




Policy Development and Organizational Issues



Ethics committees and distributive justice




Developing effective ethics policy




Implementing policy to the wider community




Ethics in and for the organization




Educating Others



The healthcare ethics committee as educator




Education as prevention




Understanding ethics pedagogy



Index