The social, legal and professional regulation context is brought into the discussion throughout, to equip students with the knowledge that they need to make clinical decisions.
Topics covered include:
- Beauchamp and Childress′ four principles of bioethics
- Rights
- Personal and individual conscience
- Moral philosophy
- The virtues/virtue ethics of the practitioner.
This book will be essential reading for pre-registration nursing students taking modules in ethics and law. It will also be a valuable text for postgraduates and qualified nurses, and students of health who need to gain an appreciation of ethics.
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Author: Roger Watson Published On: 2014-01-13
Kath Melia has captured the complex relationship between ethics, sociology and law in this book. She does not simplify the issues, yet this text, with its lively case illustrations, is totally relevant to everyday clinical practice.
Author: Alastair Campbell Published On: 2014-01-13
′Melia tackles this most important topic in a fluent and immensely readable way. This book should be essential reading for any nursing professional facing the complexities of contemporary practice.′
Kath Melia, an experienced and knowledgeable writer on health care ethics, has once again produced a very useful text for both students and registered nurses and health care practitioners in all disciplines. The emphasis on a case based, "reality" approach makes the theory-practice link explicit, a vital skill when writing about the complexities of ethics theory.
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