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 a very useful resource, I particularly like the fact that it provides more than just a descriptive outline of the issues. The author encourages the student to learn to critically evaluate the relevant issues by identifying problems with specific concepts.
A really good book, well written and well structured. The 'Practice Examples' and 'Key Points' in each section make this easy to follow and understand.
There is plenty of additional reading as well relevant to each topic.
An easy to access book, which uses different examples to 'make the point' . Some excellent questions and examples are used throughout the book to encourage deeper understanding of what can be difficult topics for students to grasp. Well done.
Very useful and easy text around accountability and ethics. Useful for fda and post graduate courses recommended to reading list and also local NHS library
Recommended as library stock. particularly useful for students who are focusing upon this topic as a dissertation or long study. Easy to read, well organised and covers contemporary material.
A very useful & accessible resource for health and social care students on pre & post registration programs. The book encourages a deep approach to thinking & learning on ethical issues.
This text provides an excellent overview on how research and the values of the researcher intertwine with ethics. It is an easy to read text that accomplishes what it set out.
A good introduction to values in healthcare, also provides students with the foundations for Values Based Practice
This book covers the subject of ethics very well
This book provides students with a good background on the ethical issues associated with healthcare provision. I had origionally considered this book for a final year undergraduate module in which students are required to apply for ethical approval for their own research. However, the content is more suited to a module on evidence based heathcare as it provides good information on the ethical issues around decision making in health care.
