Geoffrey Hunt

Ethical Issues in Nursing

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Juni 1994
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 211mm x 137mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 399g
• ISBN-13: 9780415081450
• ISBN-10: 0415081459
• Artikelnr.: 25525665

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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