Synopses & Reviews
This book presents 130 case studies illustrating ethical and social issues that arise from the increasing use of computers in medicine, nursing, psychology, pharmacy, and the allied health professions. The rapid development of health informatics offers a rich array of issues and challenges to academics, clinicians, and system developers. These issues involve threats to privacy and confidentiality, misuse of clinical and genetic information, risks to patients of bias and discrimination, erosion of the practitioner-patient relationship, threats to the autonomy of the health professional, and compromises to the quality of care provided. The use of case studies is well known in medicine, nursing, public health, epidemiology, and other health education programs. This book presents selected cases with annotation and commentaries that illustrate ethical concerns and social problems in the use of computers in medicine.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Case Studies in Ethics and Health Informatics.- The Business of CyberHealthcare.- Consumer Health Information: Let the View Beware.- Privacy and Confidentiality.- Bioinformatics.- Evaluation: An Imperative to Do No Harm.- Online Challenges for Human Subjects Research.- Appendix 1. Ethical Standards for Web Sites.- Appendix 2. Health Internet Ethics: Ethical Principles for Offering Internet Health Services to Consumers.- Appendix 3. Assessing the Quality of Internet Health Information.- Appendix 4. Principles Governing AMA Publications Web Sites.
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