Ethical Issues in Nursing
1st Edition
Published on 2. September 2003
244 pages
978-1-134-89261-7 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
'Will help nurses and their trainers explore many of the issues affecting the working practice of those who enter the profession ... will be of interest to all the caring professions and would open the eyes of those who criticise and condemn people working within the National Health Service.' - Health & Healing'Anyone interested in the nursing approach to health care will find it most illuminating.' - Ethics & Medicine
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
File size
11,73 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-134-89261-7 (9781134892617)
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Additional editions
Geoffrey Hunt
Ethical Issues in Nursing
Book
06/1994
1st Edition
Routledge
€206.10
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Geoffrey Hunt
Ethical Issues in Nursing
Book
06/1994
1st Edition
Routledge
€63.30
Shipment within 15-20 days
Person
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.
Content
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;
