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Handbook for Health Care Ethics Committees, third edition

How can dedicated health care ethics committees increase their effectiveness and demonstrate their value as essential moral resources for their organizations?

Among the most effective and increasingly valued resources in the health care decision-making process is the institutional ethics committee. The Joint Commission (TJC) accredits and certifies more than 19,000 health care organizations in the United States, including hospitals, nursing homes, and home care agencies. As a condition of accreditation, TJC requires health care organizations to have available a standing multidisciplinary ethics committee, composed of physicians, nurses, attorneys, ethicists, administrators, and interested lay citizens. Many of these committees are well meaning but may lack the information, experience, skills, and formal background in bioethics needed to effectively address the range and complexity of the ethical issues that arise in clinical and organizational settings.

Handbook for Health Care Ethics Committees was conceived in 2007 to address the myriad responsibilities assumed by ethics committees. Using sample cases and accessible language, Linda Farber Post and Jeffrey Blustein explored applied bioethics, including informed consent and refusal, decision making and decisional capacity, truth telling, care at the beginning and end of life, palliation, justice in and access to health care services, and organizational ethics.

In the third edition, Post and Blustein have thoroughly updated and reorganized the content and expanded the scope of the material, with special attention to changes in the health care landscape since the second edition was published in 2015. They also focus on communication between and among patients, care providers, and families, the demands of professionalism, the essential role that ethics committees can and should play, and how their effectiveness and value can be assessed. An entirely new chapter examines research ethics. The book also addresses the challenging ethical issues raised by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. This guide remains an essential resource for all health care ethics committee and their members.

About the Authors

Linda Farber Post is the former director of bioethics at Hackensack University Medical Center and a former associate professor at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School. Jeffrey Blustein is the Arthur Zitrin Professor of Bioethics and a professor of philosophy at the City College of New York.

Endorsements

"Hands down the best introduction to clinical bioethics, period. I wish every ethics committee member would read it, and it makes an excellent textbook in introductory bioethics courses as well."

- Alex Rajczi, Ph.D., Professor of Philosophy, Deborah and Kenneth Novack Professor of Ethics and Leadership, and George R. Roberts Fellow at Claremont McKenna College
Johns Hopkins University Press
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