Health Care Ethics

Critical Issues for the 21st Century
Exploring ethical dilemmas in modern healthcare, the text bridges foundational principles with emerging issues like autonomy, reproductive rights, health inequities, and pandemic responses. It also examines technology’s role in shaping privacy and safety while prompting readers with thought-provoking discussion questions.
Focused on today's critical issues from an ethical standpoint, Health Care Ethics: Critical Issues for the 21st Century, Fifth Edition brings together the insights of a diverse panel of leading experts in the fields of bioethics, long-term care, and health administration, and more, to examine the key issues for individuals, organizations, and society. The early chapters of this thought-provoking book offer readers a solid understanding of healthcare ethics. They cover the fundamental principles and theories that underpin healthcare ethics. Later chapters shift the focus to the pressing issues of our time, such as autonomy, the patient's right to choose, health inequities, health inequality, COVID-19, and ethical decision-making. These chapters also introduce the ethical theories, their application, and the principles that guide them.

Key Features:

• New discussion on the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade and the future of IVF and infertility.
• The role of technology in health care considering Chat GPT and other AI Technologies in healthcare – from how they'll be used and to what extent to safety, privacy and ethical considerations.
• New and expanded discussion of COVID-19 and the ethics of epidemics, pandemics and endemics.
• Clear differentiation between intimate partner violence and domestic violence.
• Discussion questions at the end of each chapter and "Think About This" boxes throughout require students to think critically about important issues.

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