A unique structured approach, the widely-known Four-Topics Method will help you make the right choice when facing complex ethical questions and dilemmas encountered during everyday patient care. Numerous clinical case examples link principles to everyday practice.
Artificial Nutrition and Hydration by Christopher Tollefsen (Editor)Pope John Paul II surprised much of the medical world in 2004 with his strongly worded statement insisting that patients in a persistent vegetative state should be provided with nutrition and hydration. This collection of essays featuring some of the most prominent Catholic bioethicists addresses the Pope's statements, the moral issues surrounding artificial feeding and hydration, the refusal of treatment, and the ethics of care for those at the end of life.
The first ethics casebook that integrates clinical ethics (medical, nursing, and dental) and research ethics with public health and informatics.
Clinical Ethics Consultation Toolkit by Bashir JiwaniThis workbook is a companion to Clinical Ethics Consultation: A Practical Guide to Changing Culture, Building Capacity and Solving Problems Case by Case. The Toolkit lays out the process for clinical ethics consultation in a series of steps within five phases: Pre-Consult, Interviews, Mid-Consult, Consult meeting(s), and Post-Consult. For each step, the Toolkit provides directions for how to complete it, tips for success, and worksheets for capturing data and analysis. The Clinical Ethics Consultation Toolkit is the playbook from which clinical ethics consultants can draw methods and strategies for effectively delivering ethics consultation.
A contemporary study of broad and major issues affecting health care and the ethics of health care from the perspective of Catholic teachings and theological investigation.
This progressive resource places concepts of social determinants of health in the larger contexts of contemporary health ethics and the evolution of social reform.