The goal of this open access book is to develop an approach to clinical health care ethics
that is more accessible to, and usable by, health professionals than the now-dominant …

​ The goal of this open access book is to develop an approach to clinical health care ethics
that is more accessible to, and usable by, health professionals than the now-dominant …

This textbook offers an introduction to the field of bioethics, specifically from a practicing
physician standpoint. It engages a wide range of recent scholarship and emerging research …

This book has its origins in the work of the first author (SS) as a researcher, teacher, and
consultant in the 1980s. During that period, the growing interest in bioethics was coupled …

We need to rethink the way we teach and engage in health care ethics. At least this is what
Stephen Scher and Kasia Kozlowska (from Harvard Medical School and University of …

The bioethics movement did not arise and expand in a vacuum. As discussed in this chapter,
advances within medicine were creating a need for ethical issues to be identified and …

Page 1 HEALTH CARE ETHICS Critical Issues for the 21st Century John F. Monagle David C.
Thomasma Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 HEALTH CARE ETHICS Critical Issues for the 21st …

The Textbook of Healthcare Ethics, Second Edition is written with practising physicians,
medical students and residents, nurses, philosophers, and other healthcare workers in mind …

Abstract Health Care Ethics Health care ethics is the field of applied ethics that is concerned
with the vast array of moral decision-making situations that arise in the practice of medicine …

The clinical ethics framework that is typically taught to medical students and residents is
deeply flawed, and the result of using this framework exclusively to resolve ethical conflicts …