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Legal and Ethical Issues for Health Professionals - 9781449672119

Un libro in lingua di Pozgar George D. edito da Jones & Bartlett Learning, 2012

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Pozgar, a health care consultant, offers guidance to health care students on dealing with legal and ethical dilemmas. He addresses ethical theories and the basic principles of ethics and law; contemporary dilemmas like abortion, AIDS, artificial insemination, organ donation, sterilization, research and clinical trials, surrogacy, human genetics, and end-of-life dilemmas; health care ethics committees; government, ethics, and the law; organizational ethics and the law; ethical and legal issues for various healthcare professions, with a separate chapter for physicians; employee and patient rights and responsibilities; patient consent; and patient abuse. This edition includes expanded discussion of ethics, virtues, and values, with a focus on ethics in public service; updated coverage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; a new summary case chapter; a new appendix on using Internet resources to find information; new discussion of social workers; and new and updated quotes, newspaper clippings, patient experiences, provider and organization experiences, and cases. A companion website includes crosswords, flashcards, a glossary, matching questions, and links. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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