Ethics: The Heart of Health Care — a classic ethics text in medical, health and nursing studies — is recommended around the globe for its straightforward introduction to ethical analysis. In this Third Edition David Seedhouse again demonstrates tangibly and graphically how ethics and health care are inextricably bound together, and creates a firm theoretical basis for practical decision-making. He not only clarifies ethics but, with the aid of the acclaimed Ethical Grid, teaches an essential practical skill which can be productively applied in day-to-day health care. Completely revised and updated, this Third Edition presents an expanded theory of ethics section, and includes comprehensive and contemporary examples and case studies. Newly covered are introductions to rights in health care ethics, the ethics of care, intuitionism, privacy, euthanasia, suicide and consent, and an extensive FAQ section is added.
About the Author iv
Preface to the Third Edition v
Preface to the Second Edition vi
Preface to the First Edition vii
Acknowledgements xi
Introduction to the Third Edition xii
Introduction to the Second Edition xlii
1 Growing Pains 1
2 Ethics is the Key 16
3 Problems of Practice 28
4 The Search for Morality 47
5 Persons and Potentials 75
6 Theories of Ethics 81
7 Obstacles to Clear Moral Reasoning 104
8 The Rings of Uncertainty 116
9 The Background to the Ethical Grid 142
10 The Use of the Ethical Grid 175
11 The Values Exchange 185
References 202
Index 207
Height:244
Width:169
Spine:16
Weight:454.00