Harris Ethics in Health Services and Policy

A Global Approach
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-470-94064-8
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 304 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Jossey-Bass Public Health / Health Services Text

This comprehensive textbook analyzes the ethical issues of healthand health care in global perspective. Ideal for students of publichealth, medicine, nursing and allied health professions, publicpolicy, and ethics, the book helps students in all these areas todevelop important competencies in their chosen fields. Applying acomparative, or multicultural, approach, the book comparesdifferent perspectives on ethical issues in various countries andcultures, such as informed consent, withholding or withdrawingtreatment, physician-assisted suicide, reproductive health issues,research with human subjects, the right to health care, rationingof limited resources, and health system reform. Applying atransnational, or cross-border, approach, the book analyzes ethicalissues that arise from the movement of patients and healthprofessionals across national borders, such as medical tourism andtransplant tourism, ethical obligations to provide care forundocumented aliens, and the "brain drain" of healthprofessionals from developing countries.
Comprehensive in scope, the book includes selected readingswhich provide diverse perspectives of people from differentcountries and cultures in their own words. Each chapter contains anintroductory section centered on a specific topic and explores thedifferent ways in which the topic is viewed around the globe.
Ethics in Health Services and Policy is designed topromote student participation and offers methods of activity-basedlearning, including factual scenarios for analysis and discussionof specific ethical issues.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Harris, Dean M.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction.
Acknowledgments.
The Author.
1 Ethical Theories and Bioethics in a GlobalPerspective.
Theories of Ethics.
Are Theories of Ethics Global?
Can Theories of Ethics Encourage People to Do the RightThing?
2 Autonomy and Informed Consent in GlobalPerspective.
Ethical Principles and Practical Issues of Informed Consent.
Does Informed Consent Really Matter to Patients?
Is Informed Consent a Universal Principle or a CulturalValue?
3 Withholding or Withdrawing Treatment and Physician-AssistedSuicide.
Withholding or Withdrawing Treatment at the End of Life.
Assisting Patients in Committing Suicide.
4 Ethical Issues in Reproductive Health.
Ethics of Abortion in Different Times, Places, and Cultures.
Current Ethical Issues in Abortion.
Assisted Reproductive Technology and Stem Cell Research.
Emergency Contraception.
Ethics of Imposing Conditions on Funding.
5 Ethical Issues of Female Genital Mutilation.
The Facts About FGM.
FGM as a Challenge to Ethical Relativism.
Ethics of FGM for Adult Women.
6 Ethical Issues of Research with Human Subjects.
Background Information and the Belmont Report.
Autonomy and Voluntary Informed Consent.
Beneficence and Cost-Benefit Analysis.
Issues of Justice and Fairness for Human Subjects.
7 The Right to Health Care, and Ethical Obligations toProvide Care.
Is There an Ethical Right to Health Care?
Ethical Obligations of Health Care Professionals.
Ethical Obligations of for-Profit Health Care Providers.
8 Ethical Issues in Rationing and Allocation of LimitedResources.
Levels of Allocating Resources.
Methods of Rationing Health Resources.
Comparative Effectiveness Research and Cost-EffectivenessAnalysis.
9 Ethical Issues of Health Insurance and Health SystemReform.
Ethical Issues in Financing Health Services and DesigningInsurance Systems.
Fundamental Values of Health Systems.
10 Ethical Issues in the Movement of Patients Across NationalBorders.
Ethical Duties to Provide Health Care to UndocumentedAliens.
Ethical Issues in Medical Tourism.
11 Ethical Issues in the Movement of Health CareProfessionals Across National Borders.
Ethical Issues in the Migration of Health Professionals.
Proposed Solutions and Their Ethical Implications.
Fair Treatment of Health Care Workers from Other Countries.
12 Corruption and Informal Payments in HealthSystems.
Payment of Informal Fees by Patients and Their Families.
Is Corruption Bad for Your (and Other People's) Health?
References.
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Dean M. Harris, JD, is a clinical associate professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and adjunct associate professor in the UNC School of Law. In addition, he serves as adjunct professor in the Health Economics and Management Institute (HEMI) in the Guanghua School of Management at Peking University. Companion web site: www.josseybass.com/go/deanharris