Values, Ethics and Health Care
- Peter Duncan - King's College London, UK
Health and Social Care
Why is thinking about values and ethics a crucial component of health care training and practice? How can we go about engaging in such thinking?
Values, Ethics and Health Care responds to these essential questions. It examines key ethical frameworks and debates within the field of healthcare, locating them firmly in their social and occupational contexts. Guiding students through a range of dilemmas and difficulties encountered in health care practice with case studies and real-life examples, this lively text illustrates how to apply knowledge to professional practice and decision-making.
Key Features
- Offers a critical and reflective understanding of health care ethics and values
- Presents an interprofessional approach
- Relates theory to 'everyday' ethics
- Includes student-friendly features such as real-life examples, 'thinking about' points, and links to further reading
The book will be essential reading for undergraduates taking courses in Values, Ethics and Professional Practice as part of health studies degree programs. It will also be useful for graduate students as well as practitioners in the field.
This is a good book, but other texts provide a broader perspective for our current first years. We are changing the syllabus and the book may well be better used when we move vaules and ethics teaching across three years of teaching
A very well organised text that covers all essential areas at a basic level. Usefull text for 1st year students.
This book gives the undergraduate students a solid foundation for further studies in Healthcare Ethics.
This text provides an excellent overview on how research and the values of the researcher intertwine with ethics. It is an easy to read text that accomplishes what it set out.
Very useful book. I will use the examples and scenarios for the students to discuss in class.
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It is also clear enough to be useful for them to read in preparation for class.
This is a very useful resource, I particularly like the fact that it provides more than just a descriptive outline of the issues. The author encourages the student to learn to critically evaluate the relevant issues by identifying problems with specific concepts.
A good sound text with a llikable layout and content relevant to present clinical activity.
This is an excellent resource for anyone interested in learning more about health and social care values. What I enjoyed about the book is the case examples used throughout to demonstrate how values can be applied in real settings. Some emphasis on ethical challenges faced by health care providers. Useful for a range of readers including A levels, undergraduate and post graduate students.
Helpful book for students to be able to gain some understanding of ethical issues in healthcare. Accessible and not too detailed so good for students who may struggle with a lot of reading.
Highly recommended and have placed on reading lists as essential readings. If you are looking for an introductory text that begins to introduce Values in a very simply but effective way with great examples then I would highly recommended this text for students.
