cover image - Bioethics - E-Book, 8th Edition
ISBN: 9780729589956
Copyright: 2023
Publication Date: 09-10-2022
Page Count: 483
Imprint: Elsevier
List Price: $74.99

Bioethics - E-Book, 8th Edition

by Megan-Jane Johnstone, AO, PhD, BA, RN

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cover image - Bioethics - E-Book, 8th Edition
ISBN: 9780729589956
Copyright: 2023
Publication Date: 09-10-2022
Page Count: 483
Imprint: Elsevier
List Price: $74.99
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    • Written in an engaging style – suitable for undergraduate as well as postgraduate students and researchers
    • Focuses on prominent and topical ethical issues facing individual nurses as well as the broader profession
    • Covers a broad range of bioethical issues in health care and how these relate to various fundamental traditions in philosophical ethics
    • Real-life case studies and hypothetical scenarios to encourage debate
    • Covers hot topics in modern nursing practice, including:
    • Professional standards
    • How to make moral decisions
    • Cross-cultural ethics, including the problem of racism
    • Dehumanisation and vulnerable populations
    • Patient rights
    • Mental health care ethics
    • End-of-life care
    • Moral politics of abortion and euthanasia
    • Moral lessons of COVID-19

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    • Questions fostering critical reflection to support learning
    • Key points and new chapter groupings for easy navigation
    • New chapter on pandemic ethics
  • 1. Professional standards and the requirement to be ethical
    2. Ethics, bioethics and nursing ethics: some working definitions
    3. Moral theory and the ethical practice of nursing
    4. Moral problems in nursing and health care contexts
    5. Moral decision making in nursing and health care
    6. Cross-cultural ethics and the ethical practice of nursing
    7. Ethics, dehumanisation and vulnerable populations
    8. Patients’ rights to and in health care
    9. Ethical issues in mental health care
    10. Ethical issues in end-of-life care
    11. The moral politics of abortion and euthanasia
    12. Professional judgment, moral quandaries and taking ‘appropriate action’
    13. Professional obligations to report harmful behaviours: risks to patient safety, child abuse and elder abuse
    14. Pandemic ethics
    15. Ethics and public health emergencies: climate change, AMR, health inequities, and emergency preparedness
  • Megan-Jane Johnstone, AO, PhD, BA, RN, Independent Scholar; Formerly Professor of Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Faculty of Health, Deakin University, Victoria, Australia.
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