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- 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 in addition to the procedures and the policies that are designed to guide such practice.
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Jun 4, 2020 · An overview of ethics and clinical ethics is presented in this review. The 4 main ethical principles, that is beneficence, nonmaleficence, autonomy, and justice, are defined and explained. Informed consent, truth-telling, and confidentiality spring from the principle of autonomy, and each of them is discussed.
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An overview of ethics and clinical ethics is presented in...
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- A Brief History of Health Care Ethics
- Methods of Moral Decision-Making
- Ethical Principles
- Ethical Issues
- Conclusion
- References and Further Reading
While the term “medical care” designates the intention to identify and to understand disease states in order to be able to diagnose and treat patients who might suffer from them, the term “health care” has a broader application to include not only what is entailed by medical care but also considerations that, while not medical, nevertheless exercis...
Methods of moral decision-making are concerned, in a variety of ways, not only with moral decision-making but also with the people who make such decisions. Some such methods focus on the actions that result from the choices that are made in moral decision-making situations in order to determine which of such actions are right, or morally correct, a...
In addition to the application of a variety of methods of moral decision-making to the practice of health care, ethical principles are also so applicable, but not procedurally in the same way as in the method of moral decision-making identified above as principlism. As concerning normative ethical theories, in particular, regardless of the particul...
The practice of every profession reveals ethical issues that are endemic to the professional field in question. The practice of health care is no different. What follows is a look at some of the most pervasive ethical issues that are encountered in the practice of health care.
Health care ethics is a multi-faceted and fundamentally important issue for the citizens of any society because the provision of health care is essential to the well-being of each person, and the ways in which people are treated, concerning their health care, bears importantly on their health status. The many moral issues that arise out of the prov...
Anderson, E. S. (1990) “Is Women’s Labor a Commodity,” in Philosophy and Public Affairs, 19: Winter, pp. 71-92.Aristotle (1985) Nicomachean Ethics, trans. by Terence Irwin, Hackett Publishing Co.Beauchamp, T. L. and Childress, J. F. (2009) Principles of Biomedical Ethics, 6thed., New York: Oxford University Press.Beauchamp, T. L., Walters, L., Kahn, J. P., and Mastroianni, A. C. (2014) Contemporary Issues in Bioethics, 8thed., Boston: Cengage.Dec 20, 2023 · Applying the ethical framework of the national commission to everyday clinical research, medical ethics scholars and IRBs later analyzed questions such as: How can informed consent be a...
Jan 19, 2023 · Adhering to ethics in health care supports improved patient outcomes, increased trust and confidence in the healthcare system, and better overall health and well-being for individuals and communities.
The contributions to this issue of the AMA Journal of Ethics address these and other timely concerns in modern health care systems and illustrate ways in which ethical questions are often inextricably bound with organizational constituents, cultures, and relationships.
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Nov 29, 2021 · Ethics of care provides a framework for health care professionals to manage ethical dilemmas and moral resilience may mitigate stress associated with the process and outcomes of ethical reasoning. This review addresses the empirical study of ethics of care and moral resilience, published in the health care literature, and identifies potential ...
Aug 8, 2022 · Aim. To summarize and evaluate the nursing virtue ethics literature, examine how virtue ethics has been applied to health care teams, offer a new framework to guide understanding and development of virtuous health care teams and offer recommendations to nurse leaders.
