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  • Ethics by Committee

    A Textbook on Consultation, Organization, and Education for Hospital Ethics Committees

    by Micah D. Hester, Dyrleif Bjarnadottir, Mark Bliton, Michael Boyland, Ken DeVille, Stuart Finder, Richard E. Grant, Chris Hackler, Lynn A. Jansen, Nancy Jecker, Kathy Kinlaw, Tracy Koogler, Eugene Kuc, Tim Murphy, David Ozar, Toby Schonfeld, Wayne Shelton, Alissa Swota ...
    Ethics by Committee was developed for the tens of thousands of people across the United States serve on hospital and other healthcare ethics committees (HECs). Experts in bioethics, clinical consultation, health law, and social psychology from across the country have contributed chapters on ethics consultation, education, and policy development. The chapters discuss important considerations for ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Community As Healing

    Pragmatist Ethics in Medical Encounters

    by Micah D. Hester ...
    The brief history of 20th century bioethics has been dominated by discussions of principles and appeals to autonomy that both divorce theory from practice and champion a notion of the individual as prior to and isolated from society. Pragmatism, on the other hand, has long sought to reconstruct ethical thought with the belief that distinctions between theory and practice, individual and society ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • William James, Moral Philosophy, and the Ethical Life

    by Jacob L. Goodson, Guy Axtell, Gregory Eiselein, Amy Kittelstrom, Joseph D. John, Roger Ward, Neal A. Tognazzini, Scott F. Aikin, Robert B. Talisse, Scott R. Stroud0, Jaishikha Nautiyal1, Anthony Karlin2, G. Scott Davis3, Eric Silverman4, Lee Yearley5, Frederick J. Ruf6, Gary S. Slater7, Pamela Crosby8, David O’Hara9, Ermine L. Algaier IV0, D. Micah Hester1, John R. Shook2, Sami Pihlström3, Seth Vannatta4 ...
    Series series American Philosophy Series
    Virtue theory, natural law, deontology, utilitarianism, existentialism: these are the basic moral theories taught in “Ethics,” “History of Philosophy,” and “Introduction to Philosophy” courses throughout the United States. When the American philosopher William James (1842 – 1910) find his way into these conversations, there is uncertainty about where his thinking fits. While utilitarianism has ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • End-of-Life Care and Pragmatic Decision Making

    A Bioethical Perspective

    by D. Micah Hester ...
    Every one of us will die, and the processes we go through will be our own - unique to our own experiences and life stories. End-of-Life Care and Pragmatic Decision Making provides a pragmatic philosophical framework based on a radically empirical attitude toward life and death. D. Micah Hester takes seriously the complexities of experiences and argues that when making end-of-life decisions, ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Guidance for Healthcare Ethics Committees

    Edited by D. Micah Hester, Toby L. Schonfeld ...
    Every accredited American hospital is required to have a process for handling ethical concerns within the institution. For the most part, hospitals satisfy this requirement by constituting an institutional healthcare ethics committee (HEC). However, many of these individuals, while well intentioned, have neither the training in ethics, nor the tools at their disposal to address properly the ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Guidance for Healthcare Ethics Committees

    Edited by D. Micah Hester, Toby Schonfeld ...
    Every accredited American hospital is required to have a mechanism for handling ethical concerns; most hospitals satisfy this requirement by constituting an institutional healthcare ethics committee (HEC), a pattern which is repeated in most western countries. This text provides definitive, comprehensive guidance for members of healthcare ethics committees who find themselves confronted with ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

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    In response to the growing emphasis on clinicians' capacity to practise effective communication, Communicating Quality and Safety in Health Care provides real-time communication scenarios and interprofessional case studies. The book engages healthcare trainees from across medicine, nursing and allied health services in a comprehensive and probing discussion of the communication demands that ... Read more

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  • Realities of Canadian Nursing

    Professional, Practice, and Power Issues

    by Carol McDonald, Marjorie McIntyre ...
    In Realities of Canadian Nursing, influential scholars throughout Canada give voice to the unheard concerns of nurses and go to great lengths to ensure the text offers readers more than an update on current and pressing professional, legal, ethical, political, social, economic, and environmental issues in nursing and healthcare. In chapter 1 of the text, authors Carol McDonald PhD, RN and Marjorie ... Read more

    $112.99 USD

  • Educating Physicians

    A Call for Reform of Medical School and Residency

    by Molly Cooke, David M. Irby, Bridget C. O'Brien ...
    Series Book 16 - Jossey-Bass/Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
    EDUCATING PHYSICIANSThe current blueprint for medical education in North America was drawn up in 1910 by Abraham Flexner in his report Medical Education in the United States and Canada. The basic features outlined by Flexner remain in place today. Yet with the past century's enormous societal changes, the practice of medicine and its scientific, pharmacological, and technological foundations have ... Read more

    $40.00 USD

  • Developing Practice for Public Health and Health Promotion E-Book

    Developing Practice for Public Health and Health Promotion E-Book

    by Jennie Naidoo, Jane Wills ...
    Series series Public Health and Health Promotion
    This package provides you with the book plus the eBook – giving you the printed book and also giving access to the complete book content electronically. Evolve eBooks allows you to quickly search the entire book, make notes, add highlights, and study more efficiently. Buying other Evolve eBooks titles makes your learning experience even better: all of the eBooks will work together on your ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Oxford Handbook of Public Health Practice

    Edited by Ichiro Kawachi, Iain Lang, Walter Ricciardi ...
    Series series Oxford Medical Handbooks
    Fully revised and updated for the fourth edition, the award-winning Oxford Handbook of Public Health Practice remains the first resort for practitioners in the field. Structured into practical sections addressed towards professional competencies and translating evidence into policy, this Handbook provides concise summaries and covers real issues from across the globe, providing a world of ... Read more

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  • Ethics and Health Care

    An Introduction

    by John C. Moskop ...
    Series series Cambridge Applied Ethics
    Who should have access to assisted reproductive technologies? Which one of many seriously ill patients should be offered the next available transplant organ? When may a surrogate decision maker decide to withdraw life-prolonging measures from an unconscious patient? Questions like these feature prominently in the field of health care ethics and in the education of health care professionals. This ... Read more

    $27.99 USD