An Ethics Casebook for Hospitals: Practical Approaches to Everyday Cases

by Mark G Kuczewski, Mark G. Kuczewski, Rosa Lynn B. Pinkus

Book Overview

This collection of thirty-one cases and commentaries addresses ethical problems commonly encountered by the average health care professional, not just those working on such high-tech specialties as organ transplants or genetic engineering. It deals with familiar issues that are rarely considered in ethics casebooks, including such fundamental matters as informed consent, patient decision-making capacity, the role of the family, and end-of-life...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0878407235
• ISBN13: 9780878407231
• Release Date: April 1999
• Publisher: Georgetown University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"