The Patient Self - Determination Act David B. Clarke 1. The federal Patient Self - Determination Act ( PSDA ) became effective on December 1 , 1991more than 15 years after California became the first state to pass its Natural Death Act ...
Obama, Barrack, 98, 183 objectivism, 6 O'Brien, Richard L., 183 Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA), 153 Office for Human Research Protection, 111 old-age entitlement programs, 97 Older Americans Act, 92,93, 94 ombudsman, ...
... The Erosion ofAutonomy in LongTerm Care (New York and Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 1992); M. O'Brien, Anatomy of a Nursing Home: A New View of Residential Life (Owings Mills, MD: National Health Publishing, 1989); J. S. ...
Key additions to the revised text include a glossary; updated facts, figures, tables, and statistics; new case studies; chapter discussion questions, including social-ethics questions; and social analysis.
Booth , J. V. , D. Grossman , J. Moore , C. Lineberger , J. D. Reynolds , J. G. Reves , and D. Sheffield . 2002. Substance abuse among physicians : A survey of academic anesthesiology programs . Anesthesia & Analgesia 95 ( 4 ) : 1024-30 ...
As Thompson et al . put it , ' virtue ethics is as old as Aristotle ( 384-322 BC ) and as new as MacIntyre's ( 1981 ) defence of virtue ethics ' ( 2000 : 303 ) . Thompson et al . say that what MacIntyre does in After virtue is to ...
Health Care Ethics: Principles and Problems
Theory of health care ethics -- Principles of health care ethics -- The moral status of gametes and embryos : storage and surrogacy -- The ethical challenges of the new reproductive technology -- Ethics and aging in America -- -- Healthcare ...
How could being a baby created by technology and according to specifications affect the child? ... “The Business of Babies,” Science & Theology News (JulyiAugust 2006): 43446; and D. L. Spar, “Buying Our Children, Selling Our Souls?
The book makes a significant contribution to the literature on ethics in health care and to the development of ethical decision making which prioritises the needs of patients.
The text's organizational strategy gently pushes students to strengthen their ethics knowledge base and relate ethics to patient issues across the lifespan, ethics within organizations, and issues of ethics in broader cultural contexts.
Here are clear, concise, systematic explanations of the principles governing American health care ethics and the problems encountered when applying them in controversial areas. In addition to treating standard topics...
This fourth edition of Health Care Ethics provides a contemporary study of broad and major issues affecting health care and the ethics of health care from the perspective of Catholic...
This thorough revision of health care ethics brings the reader up to date on the most important issues in biomedical ethics today.
This clear, readable reference explores the full range of contemporary issues in health care ethics from a practical philosophical perspective. Ethical principles are applied directly to cases, and many...