Synopsis "Ethics in Health Services and Policy: A Global Approach"
This comprehensive textbook analyzes the ethical issues of healthand health care in global perspective. Ideal for students of publichealth, medicine, nursing and allied health professions, publicpolicy, and ethics, the book helps students in all these areas todevelop important competencies in their chosen fields. Applying acomparative, or multicultural, approach, the book comparesdifferent perspectives on ethical issues in various countries andcultures, such as informed consent, withholding or withdrawingtreatment, physician-assisted suicide, reproductive health issues,research with human subjects, the right to health care, rationingof limited resources, and health system reform. Applying atransnational, or cross-border, approach, the book analyzes ethicalissues that arise from the movement of patients and healthprofessionals across national borders, such as medical tourism andtransplant tourism, ethical obligations to provide care forundocumented aliens, and the “brain drain” of healthprofessionals from developing countries. Comprehensive in scope, the book includes selected readingswhich provide diverse perspectives of people from differentcountries and cultures in their own words. Each chapter contains anintroductory section centered on a specific topic and explores thedifferent ways in which the topic is viewed around the globe.Ethics in Health Services and Policy is designed topromote student participation and offers methods of activity-basedlearning, including factual scenarios for analysis and discussionof specific ethical issues.
