Moral Dilemmas in Community Health Care: Cases and Commentaries

Examining the “:everyday” issues that arise in community practice, Moral Dilemmas in Community Health Care pulls together real questions, concerns, and dilemmas faced in by health care professionals working in community settings and smaller facilities and provide a simple framework for evaluating those dilemmas. Many different types of health care professionals comment on the cases, not just ethicists and physicians.

Cases focus on a wide range of community-based dilemmas and are set in small community hospitals, ancillary health care institutions, and doctors' offices. Readers see cases from settings that most health care professionals will work in and learn about issues professionals in ordinary health care professionals AND ordinary patients face.