MARC Record from Ithaca College Library

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100 1 $aPurtilo, Ruth B.
245 10 $aEthical dimensions in the health professions /$cRuth Purtilo.
250 $a2nd ed.
260 $aPhiladelphia :$bW.B. Saunders Co.,$cc1993.
300 $axxi, 260 p. :$bill. ;$c23 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $a What is ethics and why is it useful? -- Elements of ethics -- Types of ethical problems -- Five-step process of ethical decision-making -- Student factors -- Responsibilites to the self -- Humanizing health care -- Confidentiality -- Information disclosure; truth-telling -- Information disclosure: informed consent -- The "difficult" patient and the suicidal patient -- Care for patients with terminal illness -- Support and challenge in professional peer relationships -- Blowing the whistle on incompetent or unethical colleagues -- Allocation of health care resources -- Compensatory justice -- Complex questions of justice -- The health professional in the policy domain -- The health professional as citizen.
650 0 $aMedical ethics.