Ethical Dimensions in the Health Professions

by Ruth B. Purtilo

Carefully written to ensure successful use by all health care professionals, Ethical Dimensions in the Health Professions is still the only cross-disciplinary ethics book available. The new 4th edition of this bestselling title helps readers think critically and thoughtfully about ethical decisions they face in practice. Utilizing a unique 6-step decision making process designed by the author, this text provides an expert framework for making for making effective decisions.Questions and answers are positioned throughout the text to encourage critical thinking and enforce the interactive approach. Presents Western and non-Western sources of ethical thought, and case studies reflect a diversity of practitioners, settings, and cultures Discusses traditional normative theories in additional to newer approaches Features in every chapter objectives, new terms and ideas presented in the chapter; a list of topics in the chapter that were introduced in earlier chapters; case stories with diverse practice settings and practitioner types to appeal to a broad audience; summary boxes that synthesize key ideas; reflection boxes with answer blanks to indicate important concepts and encourage students to think critically about the material presented; fill in the blank questions in the text to further knowledge acquisition and retention; a summary paragraph at the end of the chapter; and questions for thought and discussionWeaves the 6-step ethical decision-making process more consistently throughout the text Reflects recent changes in health care, society, and ethics, and provides information on ethical issues based on new medical and high-tech discoveries Features expanded and updated case studies, with several new cases presented, further enforcing the interactive and dynamic approach Provides new information on the law-ethics relationship, showing how ethics are interdependent with legal issues

Genres: Philosophy

260 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1981

Reviews

[Erica]

This was required reading for my Medical Ethics class. While interesting and thought provoking, at times the information got to be too much all at once. It is also out of date, non withstanding the rapidly changing and evolving medicine/health and political climates of the USA. I feel like some of the examples for topics brought up didn’t hold as much relevance for me as perhaps they might have, if it was a decade earlier. I liked how there were case studies and questions to guide your thinking of being on the “right track” and check your understanding of the material.

[Courtney]

Ugh.