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This comprehensive textbook analyzes the ethical issues of health and health care in global perspective. Ideal for students of public health, medicine, nursing and allied health professions, public policy, and ethics, the book helps students in all these areas to develop important competencies in their chosen fields. Applying a comparative, or multicultural, approach, the book compares different perspectives on ethical issues in various countries and cultures, such as informed consent, withholding or withdrawing treatment, physicianassisted suicide, reproductive health issues, research with human subjects, the right to health care, rationing of limited resources, and health system reform.
Applying a transnational, or crossborder, approach, the book analyzes ethical issues that arise from the movement of patients and health professionals across national borders, such as medical tourism and transplant tourism, ethical obligations to provide care for undocumented aliens, and the “brain drain” of health professionals from developing countries. Comprehensive in scope, the book includes selected readings which provide diverse perspectives of people from different countries and cultures in their own words.
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- Höfundur: Dean M. Harris
- Útgáfa:1
- Útgáfudagur: 2011-04-04
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- Format:ePub
- ISBN 13: 9781118879023
- Print ISBN: 9780470531068
- ISBN 10: 1118879023
Efnisyfirlit
- Front Matter
- DEDICATION
- INTRODUCTION
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- THE AUTHOR
- CHAPTER ONE ETHICAL THEORIES AND BIOETHICS IN A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE
- LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- THEORIES OF ETHICS
- ARE THEORIES OF ETHICS GLOBAL?
- EXCERPT FROM “ACCOUNTING FOR CULTURE IN A GLOBALIZED BIOETHICS”
- Bioethics' Reluctant Engagement with Social Context and Cultural Difference
- Cultural Analysis: Adding a Reflexive Critique of Bioethics
- Is There a Common Morality?
- Looking Ahead in Bioethics
- Attention to Social Justice and Human Rights
- Attention to Social Context
- Conclusion
- EXCERPT FROM “ACCOUNTING FOR CULTURE IN A GLOBALIZED BIOETHICS”
- CAN THEORIES OF ETHICS ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO DO THE RIGHT THING?
- SUMMARY
- KEY TERMS
- DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
- ACTIVITY: BUILDING AND OPERATING A NEW HOSPITAL IN A DEVELOPING COUNTRY
- LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- ETHICAL PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICAL ISSUES OF INFORMED CONSENT
- EXCERPT FROM “PATIENTS' PERCEPTION AND ACTUAL PRACTICE OF INFORMED CONSENT, PRIVACY AND CONFIDENTIALITY IN GENERAL MEDICAL OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENTS OF TWO TERTIARY CARE HOSPITALS OF LAHORE”
- Introduction
- Materials and Methods
- Results
- Discussion
- Conclusion
- EXCERPT FROM “PATIENTS' PERCEPTION AND ACTUAL PRACTICE OF INFORMED CONSENT, PRIVACY AND CONFIDENTIALITY IN GENERAL MEDICAL OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENTS OF TWO TERTIARY CARE HOSPITALS OF LAHORE”
- ACTIVITY: INFORMED CONSENT AT A RURAL HEALTH FACILITY IN A DEVELOPING COUNTRY
- LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- WITHHOLDING OR WITHDRAWING TREATMENT AT THE END OF LIFE
- ASSISTING PATIENTS IN COMMITTING SUICIDE
- EXCERPT FROM “PHYSICIANS' EXPERIENCES WITH END-OF-LIFE DECISION-MAKING: SURVEY IN 6 EUROPEAN COUNTRIES AND AUSTRALIA”
- Background
- Methods
- Discussion
- Conclusion
- EXCERPT FROM “PHYSICIANS' EXPERIENCES WITH END-OF-LIFE DECISION-MAKING: SURVEY IN 6 EUROPEAN COUNTRIES AND AUSTRALIA”
- ACTIVITY: DEVELOPING AN ETHICS POLICY ON WITHHOLDING OR WITHDRAWING TREATMENT AND PAS
- LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- ETHICS OF ABORTION IN DIFFERENT TIMES, PLACES, AND CULTURES
- CURRENT ETHICAL ISSUES IN ABORTION
- ASSISTED REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGY AND STEM CELL RESEARCH
- EMERGENCY CONTRACEPTION
- ETHICS OF IMPOSING CONDITIONS ON FUNDING
- MEMORANDUM OF JANUARY 23, 2009: MEXICO CITY POLICY AND ASSISTANCE FOR VOLUNTARY POPULATION PLANNING
- Memorandum for the Secretary of State [and] the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development
- MEMORANDUM OF JANUARY 23, 2009: MEXICO CITY POLICY AND ASSISTANCE FOR VOLUNTARY POPULATION PLANNING
- ACTIVITY: THE ETHICS OF EMERGENCY CONTRACEPTION IN GOUANASTAN
- LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- THE FACTS ABOUT FGM
- EXCERPT FROM “PERCEPTION OF PRIMARY HEALTH PROFESSIONALS ABOUT FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION: FROM HEALTHCARE TO INTERCULTURAL COMPETENCE”
- Background...
- Methods
- Results
- Discussion
- Conclusion
- EXCERPT FROM “PERCEPTION OF PRIMARY HEALTH PROFESSIONALS ABOUT FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION: FROM HEALTHCARE TO INTERCULTURAL COMPETENCE”
- ACTIVITY: DEVELOPING A HOSPITAL POLICY ON FGM
- LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- BACKGROUND INFORMATION AND THE BELMONT REPORT
- THE BELMONT REPORT: ETHICAL PRINCIPLES AND GUIDELINES FOR THE PROTECTION OF HUMAN SUBJECTS OF RESEARCH
- Part B: Basic Ethical Principles
- Part C: Applications
- THE BELMONT REPORT: ETHICAL PRINCIPLES AND GUIDELINES FOR THE PROTECTION OF HUMAN SUBJECTS OF RESEARCH
- EXCERPT FROM “THE TENOFOVIR TRIAL CONTROVERSY IN CAMBODIA: CAN A TRIAL BE CONSIDERED ETHICAL IF THERE IS NO LONG-TERM POST-TRIAL CARE?”
- What WNU wants
- ACTIVITY: THE USE OF PRISONERS AS SUBJECTS OF RESEARCH
- LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- IS THERE AN ETHICAL RIGHT TO HEALTH CARE?
- ETHICAL OBLIGATIONS OF HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS
- ETHICAL OBLIGATIONS OF FOR-PROFIT HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS
- SUMMARY
- KEY TERMS
- DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
- ACTIVITY: DEVELOPING A POLICY ON THE OBLIGATIONS OF HEALTH CARE EMPLOYEES TO WORK DURING AN EMERGENCY
- LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- LEVELS OF ALLOCATING RESOURCES
- FIGURE 8.1 Decision Tree for Allocating the Resources of a Society
- METHODS OF RATIONING HEALTH RESOURCES
- EXCERPT FROM “RATIONING ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY FOR HIV/AIDS IN AFRICA: CHOICES AND CONSEQUENCES”
- Systems for Rationing
- Explicit Rationing Systems
- Implicit Rationing Systems
- Evaluating the Systems
- Conclusions...
- EXCERPT FROM “RATIONING ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY FOR HIV/AIDS IN AFRICA: CHOICES AND CONSEQUENCES”
- ACTIVITY: COST-EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS IN A COUNTRY WITH UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE COVERAGE
- LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- ETHICAL ISSUES IN FINANCING HEALTH SERVICES AND DESIGNING INSURANCE SYSTEMS
- FUNDAMENTAL VALUES OF HEALTH SYSTEMS
- EXCERPT FROM “INFORMAL RISK-SHARING ARRANGEMENTS (IRSAs) IN RURAL BURKINA FASO: LESSONS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF COMMUNITY-BASED INSURANCE (CBI)”
- Introduction
- Research Context
- IRSAs in West Africa and Burkina Faso
- Mutual Health Institutions and Insurance in Burkina Faso
- Results
- Solidarity Networks Based on Kinship, Neighbourhood, Ethnicity or Profession
- Notions of Solidarity and Reciprocity
- Solidarity
- Solidarity in Times of Ill-Health...
- Discussion and Conclusions
- EXCERPT FROM “INFORMAL RISK-SHARING ARRANGEMENTS (IRSAs) IN RURAL BURKINA FASO: LESSONS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF COMMUNITY-BASED INSURANCE (CBI)”
- ACTIVITY: ESTABLISHING A SYSTEM OF HEALTH COVERAGE IN A DEVELOPING COUNTRY
- LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- ETHICAL DUTIES TO PROVIDE HEALTH CARE TO UNDOCUMENTED ALIENS
- Barriers to Access, Cost Implications, and Provider Response
- Ethical Analysis of Providing Care for Undocumented Aliens
- ETHICAL ISSUES IN MEDICAL TOURISM
- SUMMARY
- KEY TERMS
- DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
- ACTIVITY: DEVELOPING A HOSPITAL POLICY ON UNDOCUMENTED ALIENS
- LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- ETHICAL ISSUES IN THE MIGRATION OF HEALTH PROFESSIONALS
- EXCERPT FROM “THE ‘BRAIN DRAIN’ OF PHYSICIANS: HISTORICAL ANTECEDENTS TO AN ETHICAL DEBATE, C. 1960–79”
- Background
- The Transnational Migration of Physicians, c.1960–79
- The “Brain Drain” of Physicians from Britain to North America
- Western Bioethics Meets Global Social Justice
- Out of Africa
- EXCERPT FROM “THE ‘BRAIN DRAIN’ OF PHYSICIANS: HISTORICAL ANTECEDENTS TO AN ETHICAL DEBATE, C. 1960–79”
- ACTIVITY: DEVELOPING A CODE OF ETHICAL PRACTICES FOR INTERNATIONAL RECRUITING OF HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL
- LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- PAYMENT OF INFORMAL FEES BY PATIENTS AND THEIR FAMILIES
- IS CORRUPTION BAD FOR YOUR (AND OTHER PEOPLE'S) HEALTH?
- EXCERPT FROM “GOOD GOVERNANCE AND GOOD HEALTH: THE ROLE OF SOCIETAL STRUCTURES IN THE HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS PANDEMIC”
- Methods
- Results
- Discussion
- Conclusion
- EXCERPT FROM “GOOD GOVERNANCE AND GOOD HEALTH: THE ROLE OF SOCIETAL STRUCTURES IN THE HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS PANDEMIC”
- ACTIVITY: DEVELOPING A HOSPITAL PLAN TO STOP COLLECTION OF INFORMAL FEES FROM PATIENTS IN A DEVELOPING COUNTRY
- REFERENCES
- Chapter One
- Chapter Two
- Chapter Three
- Chapter Four
- Chapter Five
- Chapter Six
- Chapter Seven
- Chapter Eight
- Chapter Nine
- Chapter Ten
- Chapter Eleven
- Chapter Twelve
- INDEX
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