A Casebook in Interprofessional Ethics: A Succinct Introduction to Ethics for the Health Professions [Paperback]

The first ethics casebook that integrates clinical ethics (medical, nursing, and dental) and research ethics with public health and informatics.  The book opens with five chapters on ethics, the development of interprofessional ethics, and brief instructional materials for students on how to analyze ethical cases and for teachers on how to teach ethics.  In todays rapidly evolving healthcare system, the cases in this book are far more realistic than previous efforts that isolate the decision-making process by professions as if each is not embedded in a larger context that involves healthcare teams, hospital policies, and technology. The central claim of this book is that ethics is an important common ground for all of the health professions.  Furthermore, when we recognize that our professions converge upon a common goal we will find less conflict and more pleasure in working together.

Table of Contents; I. Introductory chapters.- Preface: Ways to Use This Book.- 1.A Very Brief History of Health Care Ethics: Four Decades from the Golden Age of Bioethics to the Dawn of Interprofessional Ethics.- 2.FramingInterprofessionalEthicsCases.- Introduction.- Interprofessionalism.- Different Levels of Ethical Issues in the Cases.- A Framework to Help Formulate Mature Ethical Judgments.- 3. Tools for understanding and analyzing ethics cases.- Introduction: What ethics is, what ethics isnt, and when it all began.- Ethical Theories.- The Two Modern Philosophical Theories of Ethics.- Four Less Rigorous Alternative Ethical Theories.- 4. Using Principles for understanding and analyzing ethics cases: The Original Four Principles.- Four Additional Mid-level Principles for Professionalism           (and Professional Integrity).- Four Principles for Public Health.- 5. How to write essays, papers, and cons