Health Care Ethics: Theological Foundations, Contemporary Issues, and Controversial Cases

view larger Michael R. Panicola, PhD, David M. Belde, PhD, John Paul Slosar, PhD, Mark F. Repenshek, PhD ITEM #7034 ISBN: 978-1-59982-103-0 5.375 x 8.25 452 pages, paperbound $39.95 qty: Introduces students to health care ethics through examination of real-life issues In their thought-provoking and insightful revised introductory ethics text, authors Michael Panicola, David Belde, John Slosar, and Mark Repenshek address complex and controversial health care issues that are very much a part of our everyday lives. Using a normative framework, the authors incorporate specific issues, case studies, and multimedia aides in each chapter to encourage students to engage in moral discourse and reflection. The authors' stimulating faith-based discussion of how particular circumstances in society have an impact on ethical decision making is a significant contribution to our understanding of the complex relationship between health care issues and ethics. Linking new material, including chapters on the patient-physician relationship, regenerative medicine, the pharmaceutical/device industry, and health care reform, to classic chapters on reproductive technology, abortion and maternal-fetal care, stem cell research, genomic technologies, and end-of-life care, the authors underscore the important real-life concerns and issues that confront people in their daily living and the need to discern these concerns and issues with the goal of attaining human and social flourishing. Key additions to the revised text include a glossary; updated facts figures, tables, and statistics; new case studies; chapter discussion questions, including social-ethics questions; and social analysis.

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Health Care Ethics: Theological Foundations, Contemporary Issues, and Controversial Cases

view larger Michael R. Panicola, PhD, David M. Belde, PhD, John Paul Slosar, PhD, Mark F. Repenshek, PhD ITEM #7034 ISBN: 978-1-59982-103-0 5.375 x 8.25 452 pages, paperbound $39.95 qty: Introduces students to health care ethics through examination of real-life issues In their thought-provoking and insightful revised introductory ethics text, authors Michael Panicola, David Belde, John Slosar, and Mark Repenshek address complex and controversial health care issues that are very much a part of our everyday lives. Using a normative framework, the authors incorporate specific issues, case studies, and multimedia aides in each chapter to encourage students to engage in moral discourse and reflection. The authors' stimulating faith-based discussion of how particular circumstances in society have an impact on ethical decision making is a significant contribution to our understanding of the complex relationship between health care issues and ethics. Linking new material, including chapters on the patient-physician relationship, regenerative medicine, the pharmaceutical/device industry, and health care reform, to classic chapters on reproductive technology, abortion and maternal-fetal care, stem cell research, genomic technologies, and end-of-life care, the authors underscore the important real-life concerns and issues that confront people in their daily living and the need to discern these concerns and issues with the goal of attaining human and social flourishing. Key additions to the revised text include a glossary; updated facts figures, tables, and statistics; new case studies; chapter discussion questions, including social-ethics questions; and social analysis.

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Health Care Ethics: Theological Foundations, Contemporary Issues, and Controversial Cases

Health Care Ethics: Theological Foundations, Contemporary Issues, and Controversial Cases

Health Care Ethics: Theological Foundations, Contemporary Issues, and Controversial Cases

Health Care Ethics: Theological Foundations, Contemporary Issues, and Controversial Cases

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view larger Michael R. Panicola, PhD, David M. Belde, PhD, John Paul Slosar, PhD, Mark F. Repenshek, PhD ITEM #7034 ISBN: 978-1-59982-103-0 5.375 x 8.25 452 pages, paperbound $39.95 qty: Introduces students to health care ethics through examination of real-life issues In their thought-provoking and insightful revised introductory ethics text, authors Michael Panicola, David Belde, John Slosar, and Mark Repenshek address complex and controversial health care issues that are very much a part of our everyday lives. Using a normative framework, the authors incorporate specific issues, case studies, and multimedia aides in each chapter to encourage students to engage in moral discourse and reflection. The authors' stimulating faith-based discussion of how particular circumstances in society have an impact on ethical decision making is a significant contribution to our understanding of the complex relationship between health care issues and ethics. Linking new material, including chapters on the patient-physician relationship, regenerative medicine, the pharmaceutical/device industry, and health care reform, to classic chapters on reproductive technology, abortion and maternal-fetal care, stem cell research, genomic technologies, and end-of-life care, the authors underscore the important real-life concerns and issues that confront people in their daily living and the need to discern these concerns and issues with the goal of attaining human and social flourishing. Key additions to the revised text include a glossary; updated facts figures, tables, and statistics; new case studies; chapter discussion questions, including social-ethics questions; and social analysis.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781599821030
Publisher: Anselm Academic
Publication date: 09/01/2011
Pages: 452
Product dimensions: 5.30(w) x 8.20(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author


Michael R. Panicola, PhD (Saint Louis University) is corporate vice president of ethics for SSM Health Care in Saint Louis, MO.

David M. Belde, PhD (Saint Louis University) is administrative director of ethics and mission for Bon Secours Richmond Health System in Richmond, VA.

John Paul Slosar, PhD (Saint Louis University) is director of ethics for Ascension Health in Saint Louis, MO.

Mark F. Repenshek, PhD (Saint Louis University) is a health care ethicist for Columbia Saint Mary's Hospitals in Milwaukee, WI.

Table of Contents


1.Understanding Ethics and How We Approach Ethical Decisions

Understanding Ethics Generally

Understanding Health Care Ethics

How We Approach Ethical Decisions

Conclusion

2.The Bases for Our Decisions and the Role of Discernment

A Proposed Normative Basis

The Role of Discernment

Conclusion

3.Professionalism and the Patient-Physician Relationship

What Does Professionalism Mean?

Aspects of Physician Professionalism

Conclusion

4.Abortion and Maternal-Fetal Care

Difficult Questions

Setting the Context: Clinical, Social, and Legal Considerations

Types of Abortion Procedures

The Social and Legal Status of Abortion in the United States

The Intersection of Law, Public Policy, Ethics, and Abortion

Discussion: Ethical Issues and Analysis

Conclusion

5.Care of Critically Ill Newborns

Fateful Decisions in the Neonatal Context

Setting the Context: The Evolution of Neonatal Medicine

Discussion: Ethical Issues and Analysis

Conclusion

6.Reproductive Technology and the Quest for Offspring

Ethics at the Intersection of Technology and Procreation

Setting the Context: The Science of Reproductive Technologies

Discussion: Ethical Issues and Analysis

Case Studies in Assisted Reproduction

Beyond Assisted Reproduction: Ethics and Prenatal Testing

7.Embryonic Stem Cell Research, Human Cloning, and Regenerative Medicine

What Cost a Cure?

Setting the Context: The Science and Politics of Stem Cell Research and Human Cloning

The Science of Human Cloning

U.S. Public Policy, Human Cloning, and Stem Cell Research

Discussion: Ethical Issues and Analysis

Conclusion

8.Current and Future Applications of Genomic Technologies

"Quest for Humanity's Blueprint": Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications

Setting the Context: The Science of Genes and Genomics

A Cautionary Tale: The Slippery Slope to Eugenics

Discussion: Ethical Issues and Analysis

Beyond Testing: Gene Therapy and Genetic Enhancement

Conclusion

9.Medical Research on Humans and the Pharmaceutical/Device Industry

Balancing Scientific Inquiry and Human Dignity

Setting the Context: Basic Concepts and Definitions in Research on Human Beings

Individual versus Social Good

Discussion: Ethical Issues and Analysis

Human Research: The Protocol

Conflict of Interests

Conclusion

10.Forgoing Treatment at the End of Life

An Ethically Complex Issue

Setting the Context: Framework for Decisions to Forego Treatment

Discussion: Ethical Issues and Analysis

Conclusion

11.Rethinking End-of-Life Care

Introduction

Setting the Context: Health Care at the End of Life

Discussion: Ethical Issues and Analysis

Conclusion

12.Health Care Reform

Health Care Reform and Human Well-Being

Setting the Context: Why Health Care Reform is Vital

Discussion: Ethical Issues and Analysis

Three Assumptions That Can Guide Health Care Reform

Conditions Creating the Need for Health Care Reform

Seeking Excellence in Health Care: New Rules for the Twenty-First Century Health System

Conclusion

Glossary

Index

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