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Guidance for Healthcare Ethics Committees

2nd Edition

Editors:
D. Micah Hester, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, College of Medicine
Toby L. Schonfeld, National Center for Ethics in Health Care, US Department of Veterans Affairs

D. Micah Hester, Toby Schonfeld, Stephen Latham, J. L. McCurdy, C. Y. Dupree, Alissa Hurwitz Swota, Lucia Wocial, Georgina D. Campelia, Denise M. Dudzinski, Jessica Berg, Kenneth W. Goodman, Arthur R. Derse, Wayne Shelton, Thomas V. Cunningham, Nancy M. P. King, John C. Moskop, Thaddeus Mason Pope, Joseph J. Fins, Anne Drapkin Lyerly, John D. Lantos, Douglas S. Diekema, Paul J. Ford, Thomas May, Kelly East, Whitley Kelley, Jana Craig, Darryl Schuitevoerder, Peter Angelos, Cynthia M.A. Geppert, Mark R. Wicclair, Nancy S. Jecker, Sabrina F. Derrington, Margaret Moon, Kathy Kinlaw, Felicia Cohn, Katherine Wasson

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Date Published: March 2022
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Every accredited American hospital is required to have a process for handling ethical concerns within the institution. For the most part, hospitals satisfy this requirement by constituting an institutional healthcare ethics committee (HEC). However, many of these individuals, while well intentioned, have neither the training in ethics, nor the tools at their disposal to address properly the ethical considerations brought to them. Yet healthcare providers and patients turn to these committee members for ethical insight. This book focuses on HEC member education by providing definitive and comprehensive learning content for members of HECs. This second edition is fully updated throughout and adds new chapters that reflect the evolving nature of health care. Chapters are written by internationally recognized experts in bioethics and are directed specifically at members of HECs. Each chapter includes learning objectives, case presentations, and discussion questions to facilitate committee conversation.
- Includes conceptual, pragmatic and strategic discussion questions, stimulating individual comprehension and committee discussion
- Learning objectives for each chapter clearly identify educational goals
- Case studies make the content directly applicable to everyday practice
- New to this edition: social context of healthcare/racial disparities; moral distress; discharge challenges; disorders of consciousness and neurological death; neuroethics and neurodiversity; genetics; surgical ethics; psychiatric ethics; conscientious objection; quality assessment of HECs
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- Edition: 2nd Edition
- Date Published: March 2022
- format: Adobe eBook Reader
- isbn: 9781108848411
- availability: This ISBN is for an eBook version which is distributed on our behalf by a third party.
Table of Contents
Preface D. Micah Hester and Toby Schonfeld
Part I:
1. Introduction D. Micah Hester and Toby Schonfeld
2. Brief introduction to ethics and ethical theory D. Micah Hester and Toby Schonfeld
3. Healthcare ethics committees and the law Stephen Latham
4. Understanding and addressing health disparities through a racial paradigm J. L. McCurdy and C. Y. Dupree
5. Cultural and religious issues in health care Alissa Hurwitz Swota
6. Moral distress Lucia Wocial
Part II:
7. Ethics consultation mission, vision, goals, and process Georgina D. Campelia and Denise M. Dudzinski
8. A method of consultation D. Micah Hester
9. Informed consent Jessica Berg
10. Confidentiality and privacy: Traditional concerns and digital challenges Kenneth W. Goodman
11. Decision-making capacity Arthur R. Derse
12. Discharge challenges: Shifting from acute to chronic care Wayne Shelton
13. Surrogate decision making Thomas V. Cunningham
14. Advance care planning and end-of-life decision-making Nancy M. P. King and John C. Moskop
15. Potentially inappropriate treatment and medical futility Thaddeus Mason Pope
16. Cognitive dissonance and the care of patients with disorders of consciousness Joseph J. Fins
17. Ethical issues in reproduction Anne Drapkin Lyerly
18. Ethical issues in neonatology John D. Lantos
19. Ethical issues in pediatrics Douglas S. Diekema and D. Micah Hester
20. Neuroethics Paul J. Ford
21. Ethical issues in clinical genetics Thomas May, Kelly East, Whitley Kelley and Jana Craig
22. Challenging issues in surgical ethics: Intraoperative decision making, innovative surgery, and high risk operations near the end of life Darryl Schuitevoerder and Peter Angelos
23. Psychiatric ethics Cynthia M. A. Geppert
Part III:
24. Conscientious objection Mark R. Wicclair
25. Ethics committees and distributive justice Nancy S. Jecker
26. Developing and implementing effective ethics policy Sabrina F. Derrington
27. Ethics in and for the organization Margaret Moon
28. The healthcare ethics committee as educator Kathy Kinlaw
29. Understanding ethics pedagogy Felicia Cohn
30. Quality assessment of healthcare ethics committees Katherine Wasson.
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Editors
D. Micah Hester, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, College of Medicine
D. Micah Hester is Chair of the Department of Medical Humanities & Bioethics at UAMS College of Medicine, Arkansas, USA. He has over 20 years of bioethics experience. He has authored/edited numerous books and articles, and has served on the boards of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH) and the Association of Bioethics Program Directors.
Toby L. Schonfeld, National Center for Ethics in Health Care, US Department of Veterans Affairs
Toby Schonfeld is the Executive Director of the National Center for Ethics in Health Care at the US Department of Veterans Affairs. Her ethics experience spans academia, government and private industry. An accomplished author and presenter, Dr. Schonfeld is a national leader, serving on the board of ASBH.
Contributors
D. Micah Hester, Toby Schonfeld, Stephen Latham, J. L. McCurdy, C. Y. Dupree, Alissa Hurwitz Swota, Lucia Wocial, Georgina D. Campelia, Denise M. Dudzinski, Jessica Berg, Kenneth W. Goodman, Arthur R. Derse, Wayne Shelton, Thomas V. Cunningham, Nancy M. P. King, John C. Moskop, Thaddeus Mason Pope, Joseph J. Fins, Anne Drapkin Lyerly, John D. Lantos, Douglas S. Diekema, Paul J. Ford, Thomas May, Kelly East, Whitley Kelley, Jana Craig, Darryl Schuitevoerder, Peter Angelos, Cynthia M.A. Geppert, Mark R. Wicclair, Nancy S. Jecker, Sabrina F. Derrington, Margaret Moon, Kathy Kinlaw, Felicia Cohn, Katherine Wasson