Health Care Ethics - Lessons From Intensive Care

Informationen zum Autor Kath Melia is Professor of Nursing, University of Edinbugh and author of Nursing Ethics , 4e (with Ian Thompson and Kenneth Boyd; Churchill Livingstone). Klappentext Health Care Ethics examines the way ethical dilemmas are played out in everyday clinical practice and argues for an approach to ethical decision-making which focuses more on patient needs than competing professional interests. While advances in medical science and technology have improved the ability to save and prolong lives, they have also given rise to fundamental questions about what constitutes life and personhood, especially in the context of what are termed 'persistent vegetative state' and 'brain death'. Drawing on the example of intensive care where such questions feature strongly in everyday practice, Kath M Melia examines how decisions are taken within the context of multiprofessional teamworking Zusammenfassung Health Care Ethics Inhaltsverzeichnis Health Care Ethics Intensive Care Admission and Withdrawal The Palliation-Care-Cure Triangle Caring for Bodies, Caring for People From Teamwork to Ethics

List of contents

Health Care Ethics
Intensive Care Admission and Withdrawal
The Palliation-Care-Cure Triangle
Caring for Bodies, Caring for People
From Teamwork to Ethics

Product details

• Authors: Kath Melia, Kath M Melia, Kath M. Melia
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2004
• EAN: 9780761971450
• ISBN: 978-0-7619-7145-0
• No. of pages: 160
• Series: Ethics in Practice; Ethics in Practice
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; MEDICAL / Ethics, MEDICAL / Critical Care, Intensive Care Medicine, Medical ethics and professional conduct, Medical ethics & professional conduct, Philosophy;Nursing