Guidance for Healthcare Ethics Committees

D. Micah Hester is Chief of the Division of Medical Humanities and Associate Professor of Medical Humanities/Pediatrics, University of Arkansas, and Clinical Ethicist, Arkansas Children's Hospital, Little Rock, AR, USA. Toby Schonfeld is Associate Professor of Medicine at Emory University and Director of the Masters of Arts in Bioethics Program, Center for Ethics, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA.

Preface; 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; Index.