The SAGE Handbook of Health Care Ethics

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Ruth Chadwick, Henk ten Have, Eric M. Meslin
SAGE, Jan 18, 2011 - Medical - 480 pages
The SAGE Handbook of Health Care Ethics is an influential collection of work by leading scholars on the fundamental and emerging themes which define health care ethics. Combining international and interdisciplinary perspectives, the Handbook provides a cutting-edge account of debates in five key areas:

- health care ethics in an era of globalization

- beginning and end-of-life

- vulnerable populations

- research ethics and technologies

- public health and human rights.

This authoritative Handbook brings together experts with backgrounds in philosophy, sociology, law, public policy and the health professions and reflects the increasing impact of globalisation and the dynamic advances in the fields of bioscience and genetics, which keep ethics at the centre of debates about the future direction of healthcare. It is an invaluable resource for all students, practitioners, academics and researchers investigating ethical issues in relation to healthcare.

 

Contents

Health Care Ethics in an Era of Globalisation
1
1 Methodology
10
2 Foundationalism and Principles
20
3 AntiTheory
31
4 Ethics of Care
39
Challenges for Health Care and Environmental Ethics and Rights in an Era of Globalisation
49
6 Professional Codes
63
7 Organizational Ethics
73
A Futile or Useful Principle in Healthcare Ethics?
228
20 Vulnerability in Healthcare and Research Ethics
239
21 Mental Health and Disorder
251
A Review of International Policy Statements
261
23 Orphan Diseases
278
24 Poverty and Indigenous Peoples
289
25 Research Ethics
306
26 Health Research in the Global Context
326

8 Deliberation and Consensus
84
9 Privacy Confidentiality and Data Protection
95
10 Informed Consent
106
11 Health Information Technology and Globalization
117
12 Abortion
127
13 Ethics of Genetic Counseling
145
14 Regulating Reproductive Technologies
160
15 Reprogenetics
179
16 Palliative Care Ethics
194
17 Medical and Societal Issues in Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide
202
18 Advance Directives
219
27 International Research
342
28 Ethical and Scientific Issues in Gene Therapy and Stem Cell Research
356
29 Ethics of Screening
368
30 Ethics of Clinical Telemedicine
379
a Japanese Perspective
392
32 Ethical Issues in Nanotechnology
402
33 Ethics of Environmental Health
413
34 Pharmaceuticals
427
Index
440
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Henk ten Have studied medicine and philosophy at Leiden Univer′sity, the Netherlands. He received his medical degree in 1976 from Leiden University and his philosophy degree in 1983. He worked as a researcher in the Pathology Laborato-ry, University of Leiden (1976-1977), as a practising physician in the Municipal Health Services, City of Rotterdam (1978-1979), and as a Professor of Philosophy in the Faculty of Medicine and Fac-ulty of Health Sciences, University of Limburg, Maastricht (1982-1991). From 1991 he was a Professor of Medical Ethics and the Director of the Department of Eth-ics, Philosophy and History of Medicine in the University Medical Centre Nijmegen, the Netherlands. In September 2003 he joined UNESCO as Director of the Division of Ethics of Science and Technology. Since July 2010 he is Director of the Center for Healthcare Ethics at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, USA.

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