Ethics and Values in Long Term Health Care

Patricia Villani (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

136 Seiten

1994
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-56024-698-5 (ISBN)

Artikel merken

Here is an overview of many of the ethical challenges facing health care practitioners today. Health providers striving for the appropriate balance between human rights and values and the objectives within their professions confront many ethical dilemmas. This helpful book explores such dilemmas from practical and philosophical perspectives and helps practitioners successfully navigate through the maze of concerns they face on a daily basis. With Ethics and Values in Long Term Health Care, readers can develop new modes of ethical thinking that will enhance their practice as they improve the quality of life of the elderly they serve. The book presents information that can be used as a catalyst for innovative thinking and a guide for positive action. Readers are encouraged to apply the lessons contained in this book to practical decisionmaking in their respective health professions. Chapters assist health practitioners and others in thinking more in-depth about the impact of their personal ethics and values on service delivery, and help them to broaden their views and enhance their decisionmaking skills. The book has a broad scope and is divided into four sections which address:

Practitioner Knowledge
Caregiving
End of Life Choices
Health Care ReformEthics and Values in Long Term Health Care helps prepare health care professionals to confront some of the major ethics and values challenges of the 1990s and beyond. This book can be used as a guide to ethical awareness, as well as a tool for teaching ethics and values or for developing programs and workshops.

Villani, Patricia

Contents
Foreword

Introduction
I: Practitioner Knowledge
A Beginner’s Guide to Ethical Awareness in Long-Term Care Settings
Ethics and Values in Music Therapy for Persons Who Are Elderly
II: Caregiving
Ethical Challenges Facing Family Caregivers of Persons With Alzheimer’s Disease
III: End of Life Choices
Final Life Choices: Who Decides?
Supporting End of Life Decision Making
The Ethical Value of a Utilitarian Approach to Death and Dying
IV: Health Care Reform
Ethics and Health Care Reform: Outlook for Older Americans
Should Medical Care be a Right Without Restrictions by Cost, Age, Citizenship, Prognosis, or Self-Infliction?
Reference Notes Included

Erscheint lt. Verlag	15.11.1994
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 212 mm
Gewicht	362 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Medizinethik
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-56024-698-7 / 1560246987
ISBN-13	978-1-56024-698-5 / 9781560246985
Zustand	Neuware