Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 322
Trim: 6½ x 9⅜
978-0-7425-5045-2 • Hardback • October 2007 • $120.00 • (£92.00)
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D. Micah Hester is assistant professor of medical humanities and pediatrics at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and clinical ethicist at Arkansas Children's Hospital. He has authored/edited 7 books, including Community As Healing (2001) and numerous journal articles and commentaries.
Chapter 1 Preface
Chapter 2 Contributors
Chapter 3 Preliminaries
Chapter 4
Chapter 1: What should an HEC look & act like?
Chapter 5
Chapter 2: The What? and Why? of Ethics
Chapter 6
Chapter 3: Reasoning in Ethics
Chapter 7 Consulting
Chapter 8
Chapter 4: Ethics Consultation and the Committee
Chapter 9
Chapter 5: Responsibility in Actual Practice: Consent and Participation in Clinical Ethics Consultation
Chapter 10
Chapter 6: Cultural Diversity in the Clinical Setting
Chapter 11
Chapter 7: Religious Values and Medical Decision-Making
Chapter 12
Chapter 8: 8.Ethics Consultation at the End-of-life: Ideals, Rules, and Standards to Guide Decision-Making
Chapter 13
Chapter 9: Ethics in Pediatrics
Chapter 14 Educating
Chapter 15
Chapter 10: The Health Care Ethics Committee as Educator
Chapter 16
Chapter 11:Hospital Ethics Committees and Research with Human Beings
Chapter 17 Thinking about Policy
Chapter 18
Chapter 12: Distributive Justice in Hospital Healthcare
Chapter 19
Chapter 13: Taking the Lead in Developing Institutional Policies
Chapter 20 Last Thoughts
Chapter 21
Chapter 14:Handling the Law in HEC Deliberations
Chapter 22
Chapter 15:A Management Guide for the Committee
Chapter 23 Further Resources
Ethics by Committee is a wonderful and welcome addition to the literature, providing a useful resource for institutions looking to start an ethics program, ethics committee chairs who would like to improve their existing ethics committee or consultation process, and individuals who serve on ethics committees or perform ethics consultations. It should be required reading for every member of an ethics committee and everyone doing ethics consultations.
— Douglas S. Diekema
This is an invaluable text for human ethics committee [HEC] members. It will be a very useful introduction for individuals interested in joining a HEC and a handy reference for those already enmeshed in the world of clinical ethics!!!!!
— Lainie Friedman Ross
Ethics by Committee is an exhaustive exploration and guide to the many dimensions of this complicated area of ethics practice. Both novices and veterans will find it illuminating and ethics committees will simply have to have a copy in their library. For newcomers it may well become required reading....
— Jonathan Moreno