Ethical Issues in Nursing / Edition 1

by Dr Geoffrey Hunt, Geoffrey Hunt

Overview

This is the first book to take nursing ethics beyond stock 'moral concepts' to a critical examination of the fundamental assumptions underlying the very nature of nursing. It takes as its point of departure the difficulties nurses experience practising within the confines of a bioethical model of health and illness and a hierarchical, technocratic health care system. The contributors go on to deal openly and honestly with controversial issues faced by nurses, such as euthanasia and HIV.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415081443
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/09/1994
Series:	Professional Ethics
Pages:	244
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Geoffrey Hunt is the first philosopher to have been employed by the National Health Service. In 1992, his controversial National Centre for Nursing Ethics at the Hammersmith Hospital was closed down, reopening in 1993 at the University of East London. He has published widely in social philosophy and the ethics of health care.

Table of Contents

Introduction, Geoffrey Hunt; Part 1 Specific issues; Chapter 1 Nursing and informed consent, Deborah Taplin; Chapter 2 The observation of intimate aspects of care, Paul Wainwright; Chapter 3 Choice and risk in the care of elderly people, Linda Smith; Chapter 4 Caring for patients who cannot or will not eat, Julie Fenton; Chapter 5 Disabled people and the ethics of nursing research, Maddie Blackburn; Chapter 6 Ethical issues in HIV/AIDS epidemiology, Ann Kennedy; Part 2 General issues; Chapter 7 Nursing accountability, Geoffrey Hunt; Chapter 8 The value of codes of conduct, Andrew Edgar; Chapter 9 In the patient’s best interests, Ann P. Young; Chapter 10 Nursing and the concept of care, Linda Hanford; Chapter 11 ‘Medical judgement’ and the right time to die, Anne Maclean; Chapter 12 Nurse time as a scarce health care resource, Donna Dickenson;

Editorial Reviews

'Will help nurses and their trainers explore many of the issues affecting the working practice of those who enter the profession ... will be of interest to all the caring professions and would open the eyes of those who criticise and condemn people working within the National Health Service.' - Health & Healing

'Anyone interested in the nursing approach to health care will find it most illuminating.' - Ethics & Medicine

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