TY - BOOK AU - Post,Linda Farber AU - Blustein,Jeffrey TI - Handbook for health care ethics committees SN - 9781421416571 AV - R725.3 PY - 2015/// CY - Baltimore PB - Johns Hopkins University Press KW - Medical ethics committees KW - Handbooks, manuals, etc KW - Medical ethics KW - Bioethics KW - Ethics Committees, Clinical KW - ethics KW - Bioethical Issues KW - Ethics, Clinical N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Curriculum for ethics committees -- Ethical foundations of clinical practice -- Decision making and decisional capacity in adults -- Informed consent and refusal -- Truth telling : disclosure, privacy, and confidentiality -- Special decision-making concerns of minors -- Ethical issues in reproduction -- Special decision-making concerns of the elderly -- Ethical issues in the care of disabled persons -- End-of-life issues -- Palliation -- Justice, health, and access to health care -- Organizational ethics -- The creation, nature, and functioning of ethics committees -- Profile of ethics committees -- Clinical ethics consultation -- Ethics education -- Sample clinical cases -- Sample policies and procedures -- Organizational codes of ethics -- Key legal cases -- An ethics committee meeting ER -