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Post, Linda Farber, author.

Handbook for health care ethics committees / Linda Farber Post and Jeffrey Blustein. - Second edition. - Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2015. - 1 online resource, xiii, 413 pages.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Curriculum for ethics committees -- Ethical foundations of clinical practice -- Decision making and decisional capacity in adults -- Informed consent and refusal -- Truth telling : disclosure, privacy, and confidentiality -- Special decision-making concerns of minors -- Ethical issues in reproduction -- Special decision-making concerns of the elderly -- Ethical issues in the care of disabled persons -- End-of-life issues -- Palliation -- Justice, health, and access to health care -- Organizational ethics -- The creation, nature, and functioning of ethics committees -- Profile of ethics committees -- Clinical ethics consultation -- Ethics education -- Sample clinical cases -- Sample policies and procedures -- Organizational codes of ethics -- Key legal cases -- An ethics committee meeting

ISBN: 9781421416571 1421416573

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Medical ethics committees -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
Medical ethics
Bioethics
Ethics Committees, Clinical -- ethics
Bioethical Issues
Ethics, Clinical

Dewey Class. No.: 610