Health care ethics : a college textbook for nursing, medicine, and other health care-related courses /

Sambajon, Marvin Julian L.

Health care ethics : a college textbook for nursing, medicine, and other health care-related courses / Marvin Julian L. Sambajon - Quezon City, Philippines : C & E Publishing Inc., c2008 - xvi, 365 pages ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Fundamentals of ethics in health care -- Ethics and health care -- Morality of human acts -- Law and conscience -- Moral principles in health care -- Moral issues and teachings in health care -- Mutilation and sterilization -- Abortion -- Embryo stem cell research -- Artificial insemination and in vitro fertilizations -- Euthanasia -- Ethical provisions in health care on specific areas of concern -- The health care practitioner and his professional relationship.

The book is basically designed to be in the context of health care so that health care practitioners may gain proper moral and ethical perspective out of which they can render health care services according to what is good, right, and just.

9789715845748


MEDICAL ETHICS

R 724 .S26 2008