Ethics: The Heart of Health Care

Ethics: The Heart of Health Care a classic ethics text in medical, health and nursing studies is recommended around the globe for its straightforward introduction.
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Read an Excerpt Excerpt 1: Added to Your Shopping Cart. The Heart of Health Care — a classic ethics text in medical, health and nursing studies — is recommended around the globe for its straightforward introduction to ethical analysis. In this Third Edition David Seedhouse again demonstrates tangibly and graphically how ethics and health care are inextricably bound together, and creates a firm theoretical basis for practical decision-making.

He not only clarifies ethics but, with the aid of the acclaimed Ethical Grid, teaches an essential practical skill which can be productively applied in day-to-day health care.

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About the Author Professor David Seedhouse? Table of contents About the Author. Preface to the Second Edition.


  1. A Madness Of Angels: A Matthew Swift Novel.
  2. Vagabond Heart (Pearl Harbour).
  3. Sexhibition?
  4. Miracle dans la jungle (French Edition)!

Preface to the First Edition. Introduction to the Second Edition. Ethics is the Key.

The Search for Morality. He not only clarifies ethics but, with the aid of the acclaimed Ethical Grid, teaches an essential practical skill which can be productively applied in day-to-day health care.

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This edition, which is even more readable than the first, includes additional case studies and teaching exercises, contains new material on ethical theory and offers two further decision-making tools - The Rings of Uncertainty and the Autonomy Test. The engaging new introduction reveals the genesis of the Ethical Grid, illuminates the intent and argument of the first edition, and explains why the book is needed today as much as ever.


  1. See a Problem?.
  2. The Mark of a Man?
  3. Selected References.
  4. Introductory Map Theory!
  5. Il quinto Vangelo (Black & Yellow) (Italian Edition).

Intended for all who work in health care or health studies - indeed for anyone with an interest in health issues - this is a highly original, innovative and accessible work on a subject traditionally regarded as lofty and obscure. It clarifies a wide variety of complex ethical issues and will give the reader fresh inspiration and renewed confidence in dealing with the demands of modern health work. Chapter Two Ethics is the Key. Chapter Three Uncovering the Basic Questions.

Ethics: The Heart of Health Care

The Heart of Health Care Dr. The Foundations for Achievement Dr. He continued this research programme at Manchester University and 'The Grafton', Rusholme ?