Values, Ethics and Health Care
- Peter Duncan - King's College London, UK
"[This book] offers frameworks and guidance that all health care workers will find stimulating and challenging and that all of them will benefit by considering." - Professor Linda Jones, Open University
Why is thinking about values and ethics a crucial component of health care training and practice? How can we go about engaging in such thinking?
Values, Ethics and Health Care responds to these essential questions. It examines key ethical frameworks and debates within the field of healthcare, locating them firmly in their social and occupational contexts. Guiding students through a range of dilemmas and difficulties encountered in health care practice with case studies and real-life examples, this lively text illustrates how to apply knowledge to professional practice and decision-making.
Key features of the book:
- Offers a critical and reflective understanding of health care ethics and values
- Presents an interprofessional approach
- Relates theory to 'everyday' ethics
- Includes student-friendly features such as real-life examples, 'thinking about' points and links to further reading.
The book will be essential reading for undergraduates taking modules in Values, Ethics and Professional Practice as part of health studies degree programmes. It will also be useful for postgraduates as well as practitioners in the field.
This is an easily read, comprehensive book which complements the teaching of Health/research ethics
Essential reading for anyone engaging with research in a healthcare setting.
User friendly text.
Highly recommended and have placed on reading lists as essential readings. If you are looking for an introductory text that begins to introduce Values in a very simply but effective way with great examples then I would highly recommended this text for students.
Not focused sufficiently in mental health practice
A good sound text with a llikable layout and content relevant to present clinical activity.
A bit demanding for our students, I expected more concrete information.
Excellent book to explore different values and ethics in social care.
A well planned and easily navigated text.
It is a suitable text for all levels of student and experience and is relevant to all aspects of care in the hospital and community setting
A non threatening approach to some complex issues. Students are often intimidated by the concept of ethics in relation to understanding its context in health care. This book is informative and concise.
well researched providing the student with a good overview of the subject
