Ethics : : Contemporary challenges in health and social care / / ed. by Audrey Leathard, Susan McLaren.

While ethics has been addressed in the health care literature, relatively little attention has been paid to the subject in the field of social care. This book redresses the balance by examining theory, research, policy and practice in both fields. The analysis is set within the context of contempora...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-1995
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Place / Publishing House:Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2007]
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Year of Publication:2007
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (328 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Contents
  • List of tables, figures and boxes
  • List of contributors
  • Introduction
  • Ethics: Research and provision in health and social care
  • Ethics and contemporary challenges in health and social care
  • Ethical issues in health and social care research
  • Ethics: research governance for health and social care
  • Ethics and primary health care
  • Ethics and social care: political, organisational and interagency dimensions
  • Ethics and interprofessional care
  • Service users and ethics
  • Law, management and ethics in health and social care
  • Ethical and legal perspectives on human rights
  • Multidisciplinary team practice in law and ethics: an Australian perspective
  • Ethics and the management of health and social care
  • Ethics and the social responsibility of institutions regarding resource allocation in health and social care: a US perspective
  • Ethics and charging for care
  • Ethics: From the start of life to the end
  • Ethical challenges and the new technologies of reproduction
  • Ethics: caring for children and young people
  • Ethical dilemmas in caring for people with complex disabilities
  • Mental health: safe, sound and supportive?
  • Ethics and older people
  • Ethics and euthanasia
  • Conclusion
  • Index