Ethical Health
Care Patricia Illingworth, Wendy
Parmet, Northeastern University School of Law, Massachusetts
Softcover, 656 pages
ISBN 0130453013
Prentice Hall
August 2005 (click below for the very best currently available price for
this important resource)
Offering a format that is significantly different than that
offered by other books, Ethical Health Care begins by asking
what is meant by health and how it is achieved.
The book then proceeds to explore with care and context the
nature of the relationship between patients and clinicians, health
care providers and the societies in which they inhabit, and finally
the relationship between the health care enterprise and the
international community.
By emphasizing the ethical issues that arise in the broad quest
to foster human health, and appreciating that health is not
primarily a function of medical interventions, Ethical Health
Care introduces readers to problems such as the international
distribution of pharmaceuticals and the dangers of reemerging
infections.
To a far greater extent than is done traditionally, Ethical
Health Care provides an interdisciplinary perspective to
bioethics, relying heavily upon the teachings of economics, law, and
public health.
This is a
good book for health administrators, board members, hospital
managers, medical professionals, compliance officers, risk managers
and students. Features of this book include:
Coverage of critical and
pressing issues – Covers such issues as the West’s
relationship to developing countries with respect to
pharmaceuticals. Introduces readers to the many ethical problems
that affect billions of people, rather than simply the
fascinating but relatively rare problems that occur in high
technology medical centers.
Contextualization of the
issues covered – A great detail of attention paid to the
economic, legal, and policy settings. Helps readers to ground
their analysis of bioethics in the context in which issues
arise.
Broad use of
interdisciplinary materials –I ncluding philosophical
readings, legal cases and documents, and empirical reports.
Helps the reader to become familiar with the many fields that
are critical to bioethical issues in the future
This book includes the following
contributions and resources:
Rene Dubois, Health and Creative
Adaptation.
Daniel Callahan, The WHO
Definition of Health.
Scot D. Yoder, Individual
Responsibility for Health, Decision Not Discovery.
Geoffrey Rose, Sick Individuals
and Sick Populations.
Ichiro Kawachi, Bruce Kennedy,
Kimberly Lochner, Long Live Community: Social Capital as Public
Health.
Finn Diderichsen, Timothy Evans,
Margaret Whitehead, The Social Basis Of Disparities in Health.
John K. Iglehart, The American
Health Care System — Expenditures.
Wendy K. Mariner, Rationing
Health Care and the Need for Credible Scarcity: Why Americans
Can’t Say No.
Gerald Dworkin, Autonomy and
Informed Consent.
Leslie Blackhall, et al.,
Ethnicity and Attitudes Toward Patient Autonomy.
David J. Rothman, The Origins
and Consequences of Patient Autonomy: A 25-Year Retrospective.
Shine v. Vega.
Bouvia v. Superior Court of Los
Angeles County.
Garrett Hardin, The Tragedy of
the Commons.
Dan E. Beauchmp, Community: The
Neglected Tradition of Public Health.
Jacobson v. Massachusetts.
In re A.C.
Ferguson v. City of Charleston.
Amitai Etzioni, HIV Sufferers
Have a Responsibility.
Ronald Bayer, AIDS
Prevention–Sexual Ethics and Responsibility.
Eike-Henner Kluge, Drawing the
Ethical Line Between Organ Transplantation and Lifestyle Abuse.
The Ethical Obligations of
Health Care Providers.
The Ethical Obligation of
Physicians and Other Providers.
The Hippocratic Oath.
Matthew Wynia et al., Medical
Professionalism in Society.
Dena S. Davis, Nursing: An Ethic
of Caring.
Helga Kuhse, Clinical Ethics and
Nursing: “Yes” to Caring, But “No” to a Female Ethics of Care.
The Obligation of Physicians to
Provide Quality Care.
Helling v. Carey.
Steven H. Miles, Sounding Board:
Informed Demand for ‘Non-Beneficial’ Medical Treatment.
Marcia Angell, The Case of Helga
Wanglie: A New Kind of ‘Right to Die’ Case.
Ezekiel J. Emanuel, What is the
Great Benefit of Legalizing Euthanasia of Physician-Assisted
Suicide?
Jerome E. Bickenbach, Disability
and Life-Ending Decisions.
Washington v. Glucksberg.
The Obligation of
Confidentiality.
Whalen v. Roe.
Roberta M. Berry, The Genetic
Revolution and the Physician’s Duty of Confidentiality.
Amitai Etzioni, HIV Testing of
Infants: Privacy and Public Health.
Helena Gail Rubenstein, If I Am
Only for Myself, What Am I? A Communitarian Look at the Privacy
Stalemate.
Tarasoff v. Regents of the
University of California.
The Physician-Patient
Relationship in the Era of Managed Care.
Patricia Illingworth, Bluffing,
Puffing and Spinning in Managed Care Organizations.
Leonard M. Fleck, Justice, HMOs,
and the Invisible Rationing of Health Care Resources.
Norman G. Levinsky, The Doctor’s
Master.
John J. Paris and Stephen G.
Post, Managed Care, Cost Control, and the Common Good.
The Ethical Obligations of
Hospitals.
Darling v. Charleston Community
Memorial Hospital.
Lucian L. Leape and Donald M.
Berwick, Safe Health Care: Are We Up to It?
Utah County v. Intermountain
Health Care, Inc.
The Ethical Obligation of
Managed Care Organizations.
Wendy K. Mariner, Business v.
Medical Ethics: Conflicting Standards For Managed Care.
E. Haavi Morreim, Moral Justice
and Legal Justice in Managed Care: The Ascent of Contributive
Justice.
Pergram v. Hedrich.
Vikram Khanna, et al.,
Disclosure of Operating Practices by Managed-Care Organizations
to Consumers of Healthcare: Obligations of Informed Consent.
American Public Health
Association, Supporting National Standards of Accountability for
Access and Quality in Managed Healthcare.
The Ethical Obligations of
Pharmaceutical Companies.
Baruch Brody, Balancing
Technological Innovation with Social Well-Being.
Marcia Angell, The
Pharmaceutical Industry: To Whom is it Accountable?
David Healy, Good Science or
Good Business?
Robert A. Bell, et al.,
Direct-to-Consumer Drug Advertising and the Public.
The Obligations of the State.
World Health Organization,
Constitution.
Universal Declaration of Human
Rights.
Norman Daniels, Justice, Fair
Procedures, and the Goals of Medicine.
Richard A. Epstein, Practical
Obstacles to Positive Rights.
Wendy E. Parmet, Health Care and
the Constitution: Public Health and the Role of the State in the
Framing Era.
Norman Daniels, et al., Justice
is Good for Our Health.
Solomon R. Benatar, Global
Disparities in Health and Human Rights: A Critical Commentary.
Peter Singer, Famine, Affluence,
and Morality.
David B. Resnick, Developing
Drugs for the Developing World: An Economic, Legal, Moral, and
Political Dilemma.
Jillian Clare Cohen and Patricia
Illingworth, The Dilemma of Intellectual Property Rights for
Pharmaceuticals: The Tension Between Ensuring Access of the Poor
to Medicines and Committing to International Agreements.
Godfrey B. Tangwa, Globalization
or Westernization? Ethical Concerns in the Whole Bio-Business.
Rosemarie Tong, Towards a
Feminist Global Bioethics: Addressing Women’s Health Concerns
Worldwide.
Loretta M. Kopelman, Female
Genital Circumcision and Conventionalist Ethical Relativism.
Human Subjects in Medical
Research.
Nuremberg Code.
World Medical Association,
Declaration of Helsinki.
Grimes v. Kennedy Krieger
Institute, Inc.
Marcia Angell, The Ethics of
Clinical Research in the Third World.
Keymanthri Moodley, HIV Vaccine
Trial Participation in South Africa–An Ethical Assessment.
The President’s Council on
Bioethics, Human Cloning and Human Dignity: An Ethical Inquiry.
Leon Kass, A Debate on Human
Cloning: Why We Should Ban the Cloning of Human Beings.
Daniel Callahan, Too Much of a
Good Thing: How Splendid Technologies Can Go Wrong.
Lawrence O. Gostin, Public
Health in an Age of Bioterrorism: Rethinking Individual Rights
and Common Goods; In Defense of a Model Act to Bring Public
Health Law into the Modern Age.
George J. Annas, Bioterrorism,
Public Health, and Human Rights; Taking Human Rights Seriously
is our Best Defense Against Bioterrorism and Fosters Both the
Federalization and Globalization of Public Health.
Wendy E. Parmet, Bioterrorism:
Public Health Perspectives.
Edward P. Richards, Bioterrorism
and the Use of Fear in Public Health.
Jonathan M. Mann, Medicine and
Public Health, Ethics and Human Rights.
