Practical Decision Making in Health Care Ethics Cases and Concepts, Third Edition Raymond J. Devettere $37.50 ISBN: 9781589012516 (1589012518) LC: 2009009046 Book (Paperback) 7 x 10 This item is not yet printed. Order now and we'll ship it when it arrives! 512 pages December 2009 Quantity:

"Practical Decision Making in Health Care Ethics is a refreshingly different kind of medical ethics textbook. Based on situational prudence and practical wisdom, Devettere's approach provides students and their instructors the opportunity to examine difficult bioethical issues through thoughtful discussion and careful reflection. It works wonderfully with undergraduate students who are forming their own vision of the good life."—Dominic Sisti, Department of Philosophy, Michigan State University For nearly fifteen years Practical Decision Making in Health Care Ethics has offered scholars and students a highly accessible and teachable alternative to the dominant principle-based theories in the field. Devettere’s approach is not based on an ethics of abstract obligations and duties, but, following Aristotle, on how to live a fulfilled and happy life—in short, an ethics of personal well-being grounded in prudence, the virtue of ethical decision making. This third edition is revised and updated and includes discussions of several landmark cases, including the tragic stories of Terri Schiavo and Jesse Gelsinger (the first death caused by genetic research). Devettere addresses new topics such as partial-birth abortion law, embryonic stem cell research, infant euthanasia in The Netherlands, recent Vatican statements on feeding tubes, organ donation after cardiac death, new developments in artificial hearts, clinical trials developed by pharmaceutical companies to market new drugs, ghostwritten scientific articles published in major medical journals, and controversial HIV/AIDS research in Africa. This edition also includes a new chapter on the latest social and political issues in American health care. Devettere’s engaging text relies on commonsense moral concepts and avoids academic jargon. It includes a glossary of legal, medical, and ethical terms; an index of cases; and thoroughly updated bibliographic essays at the end of each chapter that offer resources for further reading. It is a true classic, brilliantly conceived and executed, and is now even more valuable to undergraduates and graduate students, medical students, health care professionals, hospital ethics committees and institutional review boards, and general readers interested in philosophy, medicine, and the rapidly changing field of health care ethics. Raymond J. Devettere is a professor of philosophy at Emmanuel College where he directs the values-based education program and serves on the institutional review board. He also teaches health care ethics at Boston College and is a member of both the ethics committee and institutional review board at Newton-Wellesley Hospital.

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