Ethical Dimensions in the Health Professions - E-Book

Ethical Dimensions in the Health Professions - E-Book

Author: Regina F. Doherty

Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences

Published: 2020-10-06

Total Pages: 478

ISBN-13: 0323673651

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Build the skills you need to understand and resolve ethical problems! Ethical Dimensions in the Health Professions, 7th Edition provides a solid foundation in ethical theory and concepts, applying these principles to the ethical issues surrounding health care today. It uses a unique, six-step decision-making process as a framework for thinking critically and thoughtfully, with case studies of patients to illustrate ethical topics such as conflict of interest, patient confidentiality, and upholding best practices. Written by Regina F. Doherty, an educator and occupational therapist, this book will help you make caring and effective ethical choices that improve patient care and outcomes. - UNIQUE! Ethical decision-making process provides an organizing framework to use in making the best decisions when faced with ethical problems. - Patient stories depict real-life situations and demonstrate the ethical decision-making process. - Reflection boxes depict important concepts and stimulate critical thinking. - Summary boxes highlight the most important information in each section. - Coverage of interprofessional team decision-making reflects this important, expanding movement in healthcare nationally and internationally. - Questions for thought and discussion encourage students to apply the ethical decision-making process to different situations. - NEW! Updated content throughout the book reflects the changes in the growing interprofessional movement. - NEW! Expanded content on clinician well-being includes tools for supporting moral resilience and preventing burnout in health professionals. - NEW! Updated content addresses the topics of social justice, health disparities, intersectionality, and health outcomes. - NEW! Updated national standards and regulations are provided for electronic health communications, data protections, and clinical research. - NEW! Coverage of scientific literature is expanded with studies on the effects of compassion on patient outcomes, patient safety, and provider and organizational well-being. - NEW! Coverage of ethical issues impacting healthcare and society includes topics such as medical scarcity due to healthcare supply chain shortages and extreme weather events due to climate change.


Research Methods in Health Humanities

Research Methods in Health Humanities

Author: Craig M. Klugman

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2019-09-02

Total Pages: 361

ISBN-13: 0190918535

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Research Methods in Health Humanities surveys the diverse and unique research methods used by scholars in the growing, transdisciplinary field of health humanities. Appropriate for advanced undergraduates, but rich enough to engage more seasoned students and scholars, this volume is an essential teaching and reference tool for health humanities teachers and scholars. Health humanities is a field committed to social justice and to applying expertise to real world concerns, creating research that translates to participants and communities in meaningful and useful ways. The chapters in this field-defining volume reflect these values by examining the human aspects of health and health care that are critical, reflective, textual, contextual, qualitative, and quantitative. Divided into four sections, the volume demonstrates how to conduct research on texts, contexts, people, and programs. Readers will find research methods from traditional disciplines adapted to health humanities work, such as close reading of diverse texts, archival research, ethnography, interviews, and surveys. The book also features transdisciplinary methods unique to the health humanities, such as health and social justice studies, digital health humanities, and community dialogues. Each chapter provides learning objectives, step-by-step instructions, resources, and exercises, with illustrations of the method provided by the authors' own research. An invaluable tool in learning, curricular development, and research design, this volume provides a grounding in the traditions of the humanities, fine arts, and social sciences for students considering health care careers, but also provides useful tools of inquiry for everyone, as we are all future patients and future caregivers of a loved one.