Post, Linda Farber creator author. Blustein, Jeffrey author. text bibliography mdu 2021 Third edition. monographic eng

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xi, 473 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. "Responding to the growing need for health care ethics committees to provide members with a solid foundation of knowledge about bioethics and its practical applications, this third edition builds on the format and content of its predecessors with updated, comprehensive, reorganized, and entirely new sections, each of which examines ethics committee functions and suggests ways in which committees can be most effective assets to their institutions. It remains the only book to address the singular challenges and needs of health care ethics committees and their members"-- Ethical foundations of clinical practice -- Decision making and decisional capacity in adults -- Informed consent and refusal -- Truth telling : disclosure, privacy, and confidentiality -- Special decision-making concerns of minors -- Ethical issues in reproduction -- Special decision-making concerns of the elderly -- Ethical issues in the care of disabled persons -- End-of-life issues -- Palliation -- Justice, health, and access to health care -- Organizational ethics -- Ethics committees and research -- Profile of ethics committees -- Clinical ethics consultation -- Ethics education -- Sample clinical cases -- Sample policies and procedures. Linda Farber Post and Jeffrey Blustein. Includes bibliographical references and index. Ethics Committees, Clinical Ethics, Clinical Bioethical Issues R725.3 .P67 2021 174.2 P845h WB 60 9781421442341 2020057718 DNLM/DLC 260826 20260902004643.0 21851133 eng