A Casebook for Health Care Ethics

Jay Ciaffa and Maria Kulp draw on their years of experience as teachers, researchers, and ethics committee members to create a compendium of cases that are adaptable to diverse educational settings and teaching methods. In Medical Ethics courses at the University level, the casebook can be used as a standalone text or as a supplement to readings on course topics. For Nursing and Medical school students, it can serve as a supplement to clinical course work, or as a focal point for ethics workshops and seminars. For health care practitioners, it can provide a valuable resource for continuing education activities. Cases are organized into 7 chapters, designed to promote reflection on ethical challenges and nuances that arise in medical practice, research, and policy making. Cases are constructed for "real world" relevance, clinical accuracy, and accessibility to students of different backgrounds and are accompanied by questions and resources that are designed to stimulate reflection and discussion. A Keyword Index is included to help teachers and students identify issues of interest across different chapters.