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| Carefully written to ensure successful use by all health care professionals, Ethical Dimensions in the Health Professions is still the only cross-disciplinary ethics book available. The new 4th edition of this bestselling title helps readers believe critically and thoughtfully concerning ethical decisions they face in practice. Using a distinctive 6-step decision making process intended by the author, this topic offers an expert framework for making for making efficient decisions. * Questions and answers are located throughout the topic to encourage critical thinking and enforce the interactive approach. * Presents Western and non-Western sources of ethical thought, and case studies reflect a variety of practitioners, environments, and cultures * Discusses traditional normative theories in additional to newer approaches * Features in each chapter contain: objectives, new terms and ideas presented in the chapter; a list of topics in the chapter this were introduced in earlier chapters; case stories together with different practice environments and practitioner types to appeal to a broad audience; summary boxes this synthesize key ideas; reflection boxes together with answer blanks to mean important concepts and encourage students to believe critically concerning the material presented; fill up in the blank questions in the topic to further knowledge acquisition and retention; a summary paragraph at the end of the chapter; and questions for thought and discussion. |
Customer Reviews |
 worst book ever! 2009-09-27 |
| By Jennifer Fullenkamp (Ohio) |
| This book is hard to follow and seems like the author just added extra words to fill the book up.There are no clear answers and I still have no clue what half the words mean. I had to purchase this book for school and ended up buying a different one on the side to figure out what this book meant. If you dont have to buy this book then I wouldnt if I were you. If you have to buy this book for school then get another one just to go along with this one. The little examples were the only this decent in this whole book. |
 Great service 2009-07-05 |
| By Tammie Riley |
| The book arrived on time and was in great shape. I am very pleased with my purchase and the service I received. |
| Ethical Dimensions indeed 2008-10-06 |
| By AR |
Hello fellow book readers,
this is a very good introduction book for the topic of ethics in health care. So far, i have taken a class on the same topic and not found a better book for those who are looking at health care as a career.
the book deals with morals vs. ethics and the difference in the defintions of the two words. It then gives you ethical theories that have been used to evaluate what decision to make in health care from kantian to rawls to ontological to virtue ethics.
It is a good book for those interested in health care at a general level and looking to see what one will have to encounter in terms of ethical dilemmas and problems. It is also a good book for just general discussion of ethics.
One thing, it lacks, is no focus on divine command theory and other theories related to religion. It is thus not absolutely complete especially for those who care what God has to say like a lot of people.
AR |
| Thinking critically about ethical decisions 2008-07-25 |
| By Barbara L. Lemaster (Pompano Beach, Florida) |
| This book was a textbook for a college course I took last year on ethics in health professions. I loved the course and I really enjoyed this book, which provides the ethical and moral foundations for decision making as well as relevant examples and case studies that we used in classroom discussions. The chapter relating to ethics and how it relates to legal issues was especially eye-opening for me. |
| Great for leading discussions in ethics, bad for any reference or framework. 2008-07-22 |
| By Andrew J. Degnan (Washington, DC) |
| This text by Purtillo has some definite advantages in teaching a course on ethics - it is a great way to spark debate amongst students. The case studies, while sometimes trite or unbelievable (health professionals in the field may notice some improbability in some of the scenarios), nevertheless provoke really meaningful conversation on the topics. The book is lacking in some of the more philosophical aspects of ethics in medicine, but nevertheless provides in adequate framework. Another advantage is the succinct nature of the text, it can be easily read in one sitting, but the discussions it stimulates can last hours more. |