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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Autor principal: Faiver, Kenneth L. (Autor)
Tipo de documento: Print Libro
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Santa Barbara, California Praeger [2017]
En:Año: 2017
Acceso en línea: Inhaltsverzeichnis (Verlag)
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Palabras clave:
Community Health Services > ethics
Community Health Services > legislation & jurisprudence
Holistic Health > ethics
Prison administration > Moral and ethical aspects > United States
Prisoners
Prisoners > Legal status, laws, etc > United States
Prisoners > Medical care > Moral and ethical aspects > United States
Prisons > organization & administration
USA > Strafvollzug > Medizinische Versorgung > Ethik
United States
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Sumario: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
Notas:Includes bibliographical references and index
Descripción Física:xxvii, 364 Seiten 25 cm
ISBN:9781440855504