A Handbook of Health Ethics
Edited by John B. Dossetor, OC, MD, PhD
Professor Emeritus, University of Alberta

1997 Revision of the 1994 Handbook of Healthcare Ethics & Institutional Ethics for Staff in Healthcare Institutions

A Handbook of Health Ethics, written by a group of Alberta authors. Provides a guide to issues in health ethics for health care providers who care for people as individuals, families and groups and identified new and emerging issues. In this handbook the authors have opted for clarity and simplicity even though this means leaving much ethical theory aside. The authors were motivated by a perceived need for easily digested information about ethics for health providers and those who receive services