Humane health care for prisoners: ethical and legal challenges

Ethics in the context of correctional health -- Areas of significant ethical role conflict -- Other challenging topics in ethics -- Legal issues in correctional health care -- How much health care is appropriate and necessary? -- Conceptualizing mental illness as a chronic condition -- A patient or...

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Main Author: Faiver, Kenneth L. (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
Published: Santa Barbara, California Praeger [2017]
In:Year: 2017
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Keywords:
Prisoners
Prisons > organization & administration
Prisoners > Legal status, laws, etc > United States
Prison administration > Moral and ethical aspects > United States
Prisoners > Medical care > Moral and ethical aspects > United States
Community Health Services > ethics
Community Health Services > legislation & jurisprudence
Holistic Health > ethics
United States
USA > Strafvollzug > Medizinische Versorgung > Ethik
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Summary:Ethics in the context of correctional health -- Areas of significant ethical role conflict -- Other challenging topics in ethics -- Legal issues in correctional health care -- How much health care is appropriate and necessary? -- Conceptualizing mental illness as a chronic condition -- A patient or a prisoner? -- Organizing correctional health care -- Corrections and health care working together
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Physical Description:xxvii, 364 Seiten, 25 cm
ISBN:978-1-4408-5550-4