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by Dr. David Seedhouse (Author) "The health world is so conceptually disoriented it sometimes seems it may never achieve its moral potential ..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 250 pages
  • Publisher: WileyBlackwell; 2nd Edition edition (10 Mar 1998)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0471975923
  • ISBN-13: 978-0471975922
  • Product Dimensions: 23.8 x 16.8 x 1.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 276,012 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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Ethics: The Heart of Health Care – a classic ethics text in medical, health and nursing studies – is recommended around the globe for its straightforward introduction to ethical analysis. In this new edition David Seedhouse demonstrates tangibly and graphically how ethics and health care are inextricably bound together, and creates a firm theoretical basis for practical decision–making. He not only clarifies ethics but, with the aid of the acclaimed Ethical Grid, teaches an essential practical skill which can be productively applied in day–to–day health care.

This edition, which is even more readable than the first, includes additional case studies and teaching exercises, contains new material on ethical theory and offers two further decision–making tools – The Rings of Uncertainty and the Autonomy Test. The engaging new introduction reveals the genesis of the Ethical Grid, illuminates the intent and argument of the first edition, and explains why the book is needed today as much as ever.

Intended for all who work in health care or health studies – indeed for anyone with an interest in health issues – this is a highly original, innovative and accessible work on a subject traditionally regarded as lofty and obscure. It clarifies a wide variety of complex ethical issues and will give the reader fresh inspiration and renewed confidence in dealing with the demands of modern health work.


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"...offers a radically different approach..."
"...provides a fresh perspective on how philosophy can help healthcare workers with practical decision making. This book succeeds in its attempt to provide a framework for healthcare practitioners who personally seek to work with a high degree of morality and would like to positively influence the matrix in which healthcare practice occurs..."

Medicine, Healthcare and Philisophy; A European Journal, Volume 2, Number 1 (1999)


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5.0 out of 5 stars A superb and innovative text popular with health students, 2 April 2001
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This book is the best introduction to health and medical ethics around. It explains ethical theory in a down-to-earth way that all practitioners can readily understand. Better than this, it includes the widely used Ethical Grid, a truly unique device that enables efficient, effective and comprehensive ethical thinking. I used the first edition of this book in teaching medical and nursing students for ten years - and it was always the most often used and quoted book on the course. The second edition is considerably improved - a delight in fact.

For anyone who wants to understand and apply ethical reasoning to help solve practical problems this is a must.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Suitable for medicla ethics teaching, 27 Mar 2001
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The book is quirkily written and a bit uneven in parts. The tools in the book are the most important part, namely the Ethical Grid and the Rings of Uncertainty. The author comes across as someone with very strong views though and he obviously dislikes the school of the four principles of bioethics! I do receommend this to students on the University of Liverpool Medical School, but I would like to see a more balanced and polished third edition.
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