138 Pages
by
Routledge
136 Pages
by
Routledge
138 Pages
by
Routledge
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Here is an overview of many of the ethical challenges facing health care practitioners today. Health providers striving for the appropriate balance between human rights and values and the objectives within their professions confront many ethical dilemmas. This helpful book explores such dilemmas from practical and philosophical perspectives and helps practitioners successfully navigate through the... Read more
Contents
Foreword
- Introduction
- I: Practitioner Knowledge
- A Beginner’s Guide to Ethical Awareness in Long-Term Care Settings
- Ethics and Values in Music Therapy for Persons Who Are Elderly
- II: Caregiving
- Ethical Challenges Facing Family Caregivers of Persons With Alzheimer’s Disease
- III: End of Life Choices
- Final Life Choices: Who Decides?
- Supporting End of Life Decision Making
- The Ethical Value of a Utilitarian Approach to Death and Dying
- IV: Health Care Reform
- Ethics and Health Care Reform: Outlook for Older Americans
- Should Medical Care be a Right Without Restrictions by Cost, Age, Citizenship, Prognosis, or Self-Infliction?
- Reference Notes Included
Biography
Villani, Patricia
