Description |
xiv, 402 pages ; 23 cm |
Contents |
Introduction: four questions of ethics -- 1. Values in health and illness -- 2. The nurse and moral authority -- 3. Benefiting the patient and others: the duty to produce good and avoid harm -- 4. Justice: the allocation of health resources -- 5. The principle of autonomy -- 6. Veracity -- 7. Fidelity -- 8. The sanctity of human life -- 9. Abortion, sterilization and contraception -- 10. Genetics, birth and the biological revolution -- 11. Psychiatry and the control of human behavior -- 12. HIV/AIDS care -- 13. Experimentation on human beings -- 14. Consent and the right to refuse treatment -- 15. Death and dying |
Summary |
This book uses case situations that have occurred in nursing practice to raise and explore the ethical questions of nursing ethics. It is divided into three parts. Part one idenitifies the meaning and justification of ethical claims as they apply to nursing. Part two explores basic principles of ethics and their meanings in clinical nursing practice. Part three presents several ethical issues that occur in health care, such as abortion, genetic interventions, treatment refusals, experimentation, HIV/AIDS care, and end-of-life treatment decisions |
Notes |
Rev. ed. of: Case studies in nursing ethics / Robert M. Veach, Sara T. Fry. 1987 |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Subject |
Nursing ethics -- Case studies.
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Ethics, Nursing.
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Genre/Form |
Case Reports.
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Case studies.
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Case studies.
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Author |
Veatch, Robert M.
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LC no. |
00022091 |
ISBN |
0763713333 paperback |
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