Choices and Conflict: Explorations in Health Care Ethics.Emily Friedman, Ed. Choices and Conflict: Explorations in Health Care Ethics. Chicago, Ill.: American Hospital Publishing Inc. 1992. 224 pages. $42 ($32 for American Hospital Association American Hospital Association (AHA), n.pr a nonprofit national organization of individuals, institutions, and organizations engaged in direct patient care. The association works to promote the improvement of health care services. members). This new book is a collection of articles written by numer- ous authors on the multiplicity mul·ti·plic·i·ty n. pl. mul·ti·plic·i·ties 1. The state of being various or manifold: the multiplicity of architectural styles on that street. 2. of ethical issues con- fronting the health care professional. It is a companion volume to Making Choices: Ethics Issues for Health Care Professionals, which was published in 1986. The volume is divided into five principal sections: * Rationing rationing, allotment of scarce supplies, usually by governmental decree, to provide equitable distribution. It may be employed also to conserve economic resources and to reinforce price and production controls. of health care-the issues, the reasoning, and the health care professional's role in this sensitive area. * Dilemmas in the patient-provider relationship * Ethics and the health care professional. * The practice of bioethics bioethics, in philosophy, a branch of ethics concerned with issues surrounding health care and the biological sciences. These issues include the morality of abortion, euthanasia, in vitro fertilization, and organ transplants (see transplantation, medical). * The individual and society-seeking fairness Preceding each principal section is a brief introduction by the editor of the issues raised. It is written succinctly suc·cinct adj. suc·cinct·er, suc·cinct·est 1. Characterized by clear, precise expression in few words; concise and terse: a succinct reply; a succinct style. 2. and provides the ethical framework for the collection of artijcles in the section. Choices and Conflict should be part of the library of all health professionals. It is not only an excellent resource manual but also provides material that should stimulate us all, in the words of the editor, "to burrow beneath the surface of health care and raise questions about the very structure and purposes of the system of care we have chosen." |
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