Healthcare Ethics and Human Values: An Introductory Text with Readings and Case StudiesISBN: 978-0-631-20223-3
Hardcover
512 pages
February 2002, Wiley-Blackwell
Other Available Formats: Paperback
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This volume illustrates the central importance of diversity of human values throughout healthcare. The readings are organized around the main stages of the clinical encounter from the patient's perspective. They run from staying well and 'first contact' through to either recovery or to long-term illness, death and dying.