Ethics of Health Care: A Guide for Clinical Practice

Raymond S. Edge, John Randall Groves

Cengage Learning, Sep 14, 2016 - Medical - 416 pages

Equipping today’s health care student with the tools to make sound legal and ethical decisions, ETHICS OF HEALTH CARE: A GUIDE FOR CLINICAL PRACTICE, 4e, delivers an excellent foundation in legal and ethical theory while emphasizing critical thinking, problem solving, and professional behavior -- making it an ideal resource for students in a variety of health care programs. Readers learn the language of the legal system and biomedical ethics as well as explore ethical and legal health care controversies through a wide variety of issues, including reproductive health, organ donation, physician assisted dying, just allocation of health care, cloning and genetics, and human enhancements. In addition, legal and ethical case studies, current news stories, and problems enable readers to apply what they've learned to real-world practice.
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About the author

Professor Raymond S. Edge, EdD, RRT is the author of several textbooks on health care ethics and law. During an academic career extending over three decades, he served as a dean and full professor at several major universities where in addition to teaching and administrative duties, he established faculty and student educational exchange programs with the People's Republic of China and traveled and lectured extensively in that nation. Since retiring from university teaching and administration, he has pursued his passion for regional history and culture, completing a three-book archeological fiction series based on actual Mississippi River sites and artifacts. His 2015 S: MEMOIR OF AN ICONIC GENTLEMAN recently won a silver book award in the category of best seasonal book. Professor J. Randall Groves, PhD is a professor of humanities at Ferris State University. He teaches a variety of courses including Ethics, Intro to Humanities, Eastern Religion, Western Religion, Comparative Civilization, Philosophy of Mind, Political Philosophy, Chinese Religion and Philosophy, Hinduism, Buddhism, Film and Popular Culture. His special interests are the Philosophy of World Cultural History and Comparative Civilizations. He also plays jazz guitar. His publications include AN INTRODUCTION TO HEALTH CARE ETHICS, Comparative Philosophy Mind, Religion and War, India in Western Philosophy of History. Dr. Groves earned his Ph.D. in philosophy and M.A. in history from UC San Diego.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Ethics of Health Care: A Guide for Clinical Practice
• Authors: Raymond S. Edge, John Randall Groves
• Edition: 4, illustrated
• Publisher: Cengage Learning, 2016
• ISBN: 1285854187, 9781285854182
• Length: 416 pages
• Subjects: Medical / Nursing / General