Front Cover -- Bioethics a nursing perspective -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- CHAPTER 1 Professional standards and the requirement to be ethical -- Introduction -- The requirement to be ethical -- Questioning the requirement to be ethical -- Nursing as a moral project -- Conclusion -- CRITICAL QUESTIONS -- CHAPTER 2 Ethics, bioethics and nursing ethics: some working definitions -- Introduction -- The importance of understanding ethics terms and concepts -- The need for a critical inquiry into ethical professional practice -- Understanding moral language -- What is ethics? -- What is bioethics? -- What is nursing ethics? -- What ethics is not -- The task of ethics, bioethics and nursing ethics -- Conclusion -- CRITICAL QUESTIONS -- CHAPTER 3 Moral theory and the ethical practice of nursing -- Introduction -- Moral justification -- Theoretical perspectives informing ethical practice -- Conclusion -- CRITICAL QUESTIONS -- CHAPTER 4 Cross-cultural ethics and the ethical practice of nursing -- Introduction -- Cross-cultural ethics and nursing -- Culture and its relationship to ethics -- The nature and implications of a cross-cultural approach to ethics -- Moral diversity and the challenge of moral pluralism -- Dealing with problems associated with a cross-cultural approach to ethics in health care -- Cross-cultural ethics and the case of female genital mutilation -- Conclusion -- CRITICAL QUESTIONS -- CHAPTER 5 Moral problems and moral decision-making in nursing and health care contexts -- Introduction -- Distinguishing moral problems from other sorts of problems -- Identifying different kinds of moral problems -- Making moral decisions -- Everyday moral problems in nursing -- Conclusion -- CRITICAL QUESTIONS -- CHAPTRE 6 Patients' rights to and in health care -- Introduction -- The issue of patients' rights.

What are patients' rights? -- Conclusion -- CRITICAL QUESTIONS -- CHAPTER 7 Human rights and the mentally ill -- Introduction -- Prevalence of mental illness -- Stigma, prejudice and discrimination against the mentally ill -- A human rights approach to protecting the mentally ill -- Psychiatric advance directives ('Ulysses contracts') in mental health -- Striking a balance between promoting autonomy and preventing harm -- Historical overview of the development of psychiatric advance directives (PADs) -- The moral responsibilities of nurses in mental health care -- Future directions in mental health care ethics -- Conclusion -- CRITICAL QUESTIONS -- CHAPTER 8 Ethical issues associated with the reporting of child abuse -- Introduction -- What is child abuse? -- The development of the modern child protection movement in North America -- Development of the modern child protection movement in England and Australia -- Child abuse in the cultural context of Australia -- What makes child abuse a bona fide and significant moral issue? -- The problem of ambivalence towards the moral entitlements of children -- Is the 'failure of the system' to blame? -- The ethical implications of child abuse -- The moral demand to report child abuse -- The notion of harm and its link with the moral duty to prevent child abuse -- The problem of maintaining confidentiality -- The importance of a supportive socio-cultural environment in child abuse prevention -- Conclusion -- CRITICAL QUESTIONS -- CHAPTE 9 Abortion ethics and the nursing profession -- Introduction -- What is abortion? -- Is abortion morally permissible? -- Abortion and the moral rights of women, fetuses and fathers -- Abortion, politics and the broader community -- Conclusion -- CRITICAL QUESTIONS -- CHAPTER 10 Euthanasia, assisted suicide and the nursing profession -- Introduction.

Euthanasia and its significance for nurses -- Public opinion on the euthanasia/assisted suicide issue -- Definitions of euthanasia, assisted suicide and 'mercy killing' -- Views for and against euthanasia/assisted suicide -- Conclusion -- CRITICAL QUESTIONS -- CHAPTER 11 Ethical issues in suicide and parasuicide -- Introduction -- Socio-cultural attitudes to suicide: a brief historical overview -- Defining suicide -- Suicide: some moral considerations -- Conclusion -- CRITICAL QUESTIONS -- CHAPTER 12 End-of-life decision-making and the nursing profession -- Introduction -- Not for treatment (NFT) directives -- Do not resuscitate (DNR) directives -- Raising the issues -- Medical futility -- Quality of life -- Advance directives -- Advance care planning -- Conclusion -- CRITICAL QUESTIONS -- CHAPTER 13 Taking a stand: conscientious objection, whistleblowing and reporting nursing errors -- Introduction -- Conscientious objection -- Whistleblowing in health care -- The notion of whistleblowing/whistleblowers -- Reporting nursing errors -- Conclusion -- CRITICAL QUESTIONS -- CHAPTER 14 Nursing ethics future, moral activism and meeting the challenge to be involved -- Introduction -- Nursing ethics future -- Nursing activism -- Conclusion -- CRITICAL QUESTIONS -- CHAPTER 15 Indigenous perspectives -- Introduction -- Bibliography -- Index.

The 5th edition of Bioethics provides nursing students with the necessary knowledge and understanding of the ethical issues effecting nursing practice. Groundbreaking in its first edition, Bioethics continues its role as a vital component of nursing education and provides a framework for students to understand the obligations, responsibilities and ethical challenges they will be presented with throughout their careers. This latest edition responds to new and emerging developments in the field and marks a significant turning point in nursing ethics in that it serves not only to inform but also to revitalise and progress debate on the issues presented.

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