Book Review: Handbook for Health Care Ethics Committees

July 18, 2007

Anyone who has been paying attention to healthcare issues realizes that as treatment options have expanded, so have our ethical dilemmas. Partly in response to such dilemmas, almost all hospitals in the U.S. have created institutional ethics committees. These hospital ethics committees are often formally charged by their institution to provide education, to help develop policy, and to provide ethics consultation services. Drawing from the twenty-seven-year history of the Montefiore Medical Center Bioethics Committee and Consultation Service, Linda Post, Jeffrey Blustein, and Nance Dubler have written a Handbook for Health Care Ethics Committees. And it truly is. (Metapsychology)