Ethics in Health Services and Policy: A Global Approach

Book Detail
Edition: 1
Release: 2011-04-19
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Binding: Paperback
ISBN/ASIN: 0470531061
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB

Ethics in Health Services and Policy pdf
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This comprehensive textbook analyzes the ethical issues of health and health care in global perspective. Ideal for students of public health, medicine, nursing and allied health professions, public policy, and ethics, the book helps students in all these areas to develop important competencies in their chosen fields. Applying a comparative, or multicultural, approach, the book compares different perspectives on ethical issues in various countries and cultures, such as informed consent, withholding or withdrawing treatment, physician-assisted suicide, reproductive health issues, research with human subjects, the right to health care, rationing of limited resources, and health system reform. Applying a transnational, or cross-border, approach, the book analyzes ethical issues that arise from the movement of patients and health professionals across national borders, such as medical tourism and transplant tourism, ethical obligations to provide care for undocumented aliens, and the “brai Download Ethics in Health Services and Policy for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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