The SAGE Handbook of Health Care Ethics - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1412945348 ISBN 13: 9781412945349

Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2011

Synopsis

The SAGE Handbook of Healthcare Ethics is an influential collection of work by leading scholars on the fundamental and emerging themes which define healthcare ethics. This authoritative Handbook brings together experts with backgrounds in philosophy, sociology, law, public policy and the health professions and reflects the increasing impact of globalization and the dynamic advances in the fields of bioscience and genetics, which keep ethics at the centre of debates about the future direction of healthcare. Combining international and interdisciplinary perspectives, the Handbook provides a cutting-edge account of debates in five key areas:

• Health Care Ethics in an Era of Globalization
• Beginning and End of Life
• Vulnerable Populations
• Research Ethics and Technologies
• Public Health and Human Rights

About this title

About the Author

Henk ten Have studied medicine and philosophy at Leiden Univer′sity, the Netherlands. He received his medical degree in 1976 from Leiden University and his philosophy degree in 1983. He worked as a researcher in the Pathology Laborato-ry, University of Leiden (1976-1977), as a practising physician in the Municipal Health Services, City of Rotterdam (1978-1979), and as a Professor of Philosophy in the Faculty of Medicine and Fac-ulty of Health Sciences, University of Limburg, Maastricht (1982-1991). From 1991 he was a Professor of Medical Ethics and the Director of the Department of Eth-ics, Philosophy and History of Medicine in the University Medical Centre Nijmegen, the Netherlands. In September 2003 he joined UNESCO as Director of the Division of Ethics of Science and Technology. Since July 2010 he is Director of the Center for Healthcare Ethics at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, USA.

Review

′The SAGE Handbook of Health Care Ethics is a timely and important work. Too often health care issues are treated as if they are separate issues, disconnected from other areas of global justice theory and practice and divorced from the pressures of global governance and markets. This book is a welcome attempt to redress this gap.′

Heather Widdows, Professor of Global Ethics, Philosophy Department, University of Birmingham

′This Handbook offers comprehensive coverage of the changing field of health care ethics. Providing both an international and real-life perspective on the contexts in which ethical debates occur, it will be invaluable to those interested in the field.′

Dr Mairi Levitt, Senior Lecturer, Lancaster University

′The SAGE Handbook of Health Care Ethics is a timely and important work. Too often health care issues are treated as if they are separate issues, disconnected from other areas of global justice theory and practice and divorced from the pressures of global governance and markets. This book is a welcome attempt to redress this gap.′

Heather Widdows, Professor of Global Ethics, Philosophy Department, University of Birmingham

′This Handbook offers comprehensive coverage of the changing field of health care ethics. Providing both an international and real-life perspective on the contexts in which ethical debates occur, it will be invaluable to those interested in the field.′

Dr Mairi Levitt, Senior Lecturer, Lancaster University

-- C.D. Kay, CHOICE Magazine Published On: 2011-08-01

"...the global perspective makes this volume a valuable addition to any serious medical ethics collection. Summing Up: Highly recommended."

-- C. D. Kay, Choice

Edition details

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1412945348
• ISBN 13: 9781412945349
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 480
• Editor: Chadwick Ruth, Ten Have Henk, Meslin Eric M