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Ethics in HEalth Services and Policy : A Global Approach
This comprehensive textbook analyzes the ethical issues of health and health care in global prespective. 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 multivultural, approach, the book compares different perspective on ethical issues in various countries and cultures, such as informed consent, withholding or withdrawing tratment, 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 analyze 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 profesionals from developing countries.
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