Health Care Ethics

Focused on today's critical issues from an ethical standpoint, Health Care Ethics, Fifth Edition brings together the insights of a diverse panel of leading experts in the fields of bioethics, long-term care, and health administration, and more, to examine the key issues for individuals, organizations, and society. The early chapters of this thought-provoking book offer readers a solid understanding of healthcare ethics. They cover the fundamental principles and theories that underpin healthcare ethics. Later chapters shift the focus to the pressing issues of our time, such as autonomy, the patient's right to choose, health inequities, health inequality, COVID-19, and ethical decision-making. These chapters also introduce the ethical theories, their application, and the principles that guide them. Key Features: - New discussion on the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade and the future of IVF and infertility - The role of technology in health care considering Chat GPT and other AI Technologies in healthcare - from how they'll be used and to what extent to safety, privacy and ethical considerations. - New and expanded discussion of COVID-19 and the ethics of epidemics, pandemics and endemics. - Clear differentiation between intimate partner violence and domestic violence. - Discussion questions at the end of each chapter and "Think About This" boxes throughout require students to think critically about important issues.

Dr. Eileen Morrison is a graduate of Vanderbilt University where she earned her doctorate in counseling and administration. She also holds a MPH from the University of Tennessee. She has developed and taught courses in health administration ethics to both undergraduate and graduate students and has been active in educating professionals through workshops and journal articles.' Currently, she is a professor of health administration at Texas State University in San Marcos Texas.

She is the program director of the Health Services Administration program in the College of Nursing and Health Sciences. She also coordinates the newest program offering to the department of Health Sciences- the Population Health Certificate program. Rachel teaches a broad range of healthcare courses in both curricula's including, Strategic Management in Health Care, Health Care Finance, Economics in Health Care and Essentials of Population Health. Before moving to academia, Rachel worked in the healthcare finance sector holding supervisory and managerial positions. Over the past 10 years she has maximized her healthcare knowledge and understanding by researching, writing, and presenting on a variety of healthcare topics. She will continue to be a life-long learner and educator.'

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