Health Care Ethics: Principles and Problems (5th Edition)

This clear, accessible text/reference explores the full range of contemporary issues in health care ethics from a practicalwisdom approach. The authors present the fundamental concerns of modern medical ethics-autonomy, beneficence, justice, and confidentiality-and then provide analysis, cases, and insights from professional literature to discuss them. Throughout, the discussion starts with larger issues or concepts and principles and then focuses on specific problems or complications.