Ethics in Health Services and Policy: A Global Approach
- 6h 16m
- Dean M. Harris
- John Wiley & Sons (US)
- 2011
This comprehensive textbook analyzes the ethical issues of health and health care in global perspective. Ideal for students of public health, medicine, nursing and allied health professions, public policy, and ethics, the book helps students in all these areas to develop important competencies in their chosen fields. Applying a comparative, or multicultural, approach, the book compares different perspectives on ethical issues in various countries and cultures, such as informed consent, withholding or withdrawing treatment, physician-assisted suicide, reproductive health issues, research with human subjects, the right to health care, rationing of limited resources, and health system reform. Applying a transnational, or cross-border, approach, the book analyzes ethical issues that arise from the movement of patients and health professionals across national borders, such as medical tourism and transplant tourism, ethical obligations to provide care for undocumented aliens, and the “brain drain” of health professionals from developing countries.
Comprehensive in scope, the book includes selected readings which provide diverse perspectives of people from different countries and cultures in their own words. Each chapter contains an introductory section centered on a specific topic and explores the different ways in which the topic is viewed around the globe.
Ethics in Health Services and Policy is designed to promote student participation and offers methods of activity-based learning, including factual scenarios for analysis and discussion of specific ethical issues.
About the Author
Dean M. Harris is clinical associate professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he teaches courses on comparative health systems, health law, and global perspectives on ethical issues.
In addition, he has been appointed adjunct professor in the Health Economics and Management Institute at Peking University. He frequently provides lectures and seminars at universities in Asia and Eastern Europe. He has also helped to conduct training programs for a unit of China’s Ministry of Health and a medical university in Beijing.
He received his B.A. degree in Asian Studies from Cornell University in 1973 and his J.D. degree with high honors from the UNC School of Law in 1981.
In this Book
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Ethics in Health Services and Policy—A Global Approach
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Introduction
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Ethical Theories and Bioethics in a Global Perspective
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Autonomy and Informed Consent in Global Perspective
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Withholding or Withdrawing Treatment and Physician-Assisted Suicide
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Ethical Issues in Reproductive Health
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Ethical Issues of Female Genital Mutilation
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Ethical Issues of Research with Human Subjects
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The Right to Health Care and Ethical Obligations to Provide Care
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Ethical Issues in Rationing and Allocation of Limited Resources
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Ethical Issues of Health Insurance and Health System Reform
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Ethical Issues in the Movement of Patients Across National Borders
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Ethical Issues in the Movement of Health Care Professionals Across National Borders
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Corruption and Informal Payments in Health Systems
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