NEW: Guidance for Healthcare Ethics Committees

A book project with which I was pleased and honored to be a part will be available in June:  Guidance for Healthcare Ethics Committees (Cambridge University Press).  Here is the table of contents:





Part I. The Context of Healthcare Ethics Committee Work:

1. Introduction to healthcare ethics committees D. Micah Hester and Toby Schonfeld

2. Brief introduction to ethics and ethical theory D. Micah Hester and Toby Schonfeld

3. Ethics committees and the law Stephen Latham

4. Cultural and religious issues in health care Alissa Swota



Part II. Consultation:

5. Mission, vision, goals: defining the parameters of the ethics consultation Marty Smith

6. Ethics consultation process Jeffrey Spike

7. Informed consent, shared decision making, and the ethics committee Randall Horton and Howard Brody

8. Decision-making capacity Art Derse

9. Family dynamics and surrogate decision making Lisa Soleymani Lehmann

10. Confidentiality Toby Schonfeld

11. Advance care planning and end-of-life decision making Nancy M. P. King and John Moskop

12. Medical futility Thaddeus Mason Pope

13. Ethical issues in reproduction Anne Drapkin Lyerly

14. Ethical issues in neonatology John Lantos

15. Ethical issues in pediatrics D. Micah Hester



Part III. Policy Development and Organizational Issues:

16. Ethics committees and distributive justice Nancy Jecker

17. Developing effective ethics policy Anne Lederman Flamm

18. Implementing policy to the wider community Mary Faith Marshall and Joan Liaschenko

19. Ethics in and for the organization Mary Rorty



Part IV. Educating Others:

20. The healthcare ethics committee as educator Kathy Kinlaw

21. Education as prevention Kayhan Parsi

22. Understanding ethics pedagogy Felicia Cohn