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The philosophy of healthcare is the study of the ethics, processes, and people which constitute the maintenance of health for human beings. [ citation needed ] For the most part, however, the philosophy of healthcare is best approached as an indelible component of human social structures.
Medical ethics is an applied branch of ethics which analyzes the practice of clinical medicine and related scientific research. [1] Medical ethics is based on a set of values that professionals can refer to in the case of any confusion or conflict.
Bland was the first patient in English legal history to be allowed to die by the courts through the withdrawal of life-prolonging treatment. Carol Carr: United States Georgia: 2002 A mother euthanizes her adult sons to relieve their suffering from Huntington's disease. Cruzan v. Director, Missouri Department of Health: United States Missouri: 1990
However clinical governance applies only to health and social care organisations, and only those aspects of such organisations that relate to the delivery of care to patients and their carers; it is not concerned with the other business processes of the organisation except insofar as they affect the delivery of care.
Capturing Nursing History: A Guide to Historical Methods in Research (2007) Schultheiss, Katrin. Bodies and souls: politics and the professionalization of nursing in France, 1880–1922 (Harvard U.P., 2001) full text online at ACLS e-books; Snodgrass, Mary Ellen. Historical Encyclopedia of Nursing (2004), 354 pp; from ancient times to the present
History of U.S. Health Care 1930s: Great Depression and the birth of health plans that primarily covered the cost of hospital stays. 1942: Creation of employer-sponsored health care in the wake of ...
Since care for the elderly would someday affect everyone, supporters of health care reform were able to avoid the worst fears of "socialized medicine," which was considered a dirty word for its association with communism. [9] After Lyndon B. Johnson was elected president in 1964, the stage was set for the passage of Medicare and Medicaid in ...
Medical standards of care exist for many conditions, including diabetes, [3] some cancers, [4] and sexual abuse. [5] Failure to provide patients treatment that meets a standard of care can incur legal liability for any injury or death that results. In large-scale disasters, public authorities may declare crisis standards of care apply. This ...