Handbook for Rural Health Care Ethics

A Practical Guide for Professionals

The Handbook For Rural Health Care Ethics uses a case-based approach to analyzing, solving and anticipating health care ethics dilemmas. The Handbook is authored by physicians, nurses, health-care ethicists, and hospital administrators who all had scholarship or expertise in rural ethics, and was funded by a grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Library of Medicine.

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Section I: Rural Health Care Ethics

Chapter 1	Introduction William A. Nelson	Chapter 3	The Ethical Life of Rural Health Care Professionals Ruth B. Purtilo
Chapter 2	A Landscape View of Life and Health Care in Rural Settings Angeline Bushy	Chapter 4	"Doing" Ethics in Rural Health Care Institutions Jacqueline J. Glover
Section II: Common Ethics Issues in Rural Communities
Chapter 5	Ethics Conflicts in Rural Communities: Patient-Provider Relationships Rachel Davis, Laura Weiss Roberts	Chapter 10	Ethics Conflicts in Rural Communities: Stigma and Illness Aruna Tummala, Laura Weiss Roberts
Chapter 6	Ethics Conflicts in Rural Communities: Overlapping Roles Andrew Pomerantz	Chapter 11	Ethics Conflicts in Rural Communities: End-of-Life Decision-Making Denise Niemira, Tom Townsend
Chapter 7	Ethics Conflicts in Rural Communities: Privacy and Confidentiality Tom Townsend	Chapter 12	Ethics Conflicts in Rural Communities: Recognizing and Disclosing Medical Errors Ann Freeman Cook, Helena Hoas
Chapter 8	Ethics Conflicts in Rural Communities: Shared Decision-Making Denise Niemira	Chapter 13	Ethics Conflicts in Rural Communities: Reproductive Health Care Barbara Elliott, Ruth Westra
Chapter 9	Ethics Conflicts in Rural Communities: Allocation of Scarce Resources Paul B. Gardent, Susan A. Reeves	Chapter 14	Ethics Conflicts in Rural Communities: Health Information Technology David A. Fleming
Section III: Rural Ethics Resources
Chapter 15	Practical Strategies for Addressing and Preventing Ethics Issues in Rural Settings William A. Nelson, Karen E. Schifferdecker	Chapter 17	Rural Health Care Ethics: A Selected Bibliography and Web sites Mary Ann Greene
Chapter 16	Developing Rural Ethics Networks Lisa Anderson-Shaw, Jacqueline J. Glover