Beschreibung
Provides a comprehensive step-by-step method for providing clinical ethics consultation services Contains systematic decision process for arriving at concrete solutions to specific, challenging questions Offers support in a context of professional diversity
Autorenporträt
Dr. Bashir Jiwani is Ethicist and Director of Ethics Services and Diversity Services with Fraser Health, one of Canada's largest and fastest growing health authorities. He has also served as Leader of Ethics Services for Providence Health Care in Vancouver and Northern Alberta Coordinator with the Provincial Health Ethics Network. In these roles spanning close to two decades, he has been integrally involved with directly providing clinical ethics consults, setting up clinical ethics services and assisting others to do the same. Bashir's academic background is in philosophy and public health. He has a Doctorate from the University of Albertas Public Health Sciences department and a Master's degree in Applied Ethics, specializing in Bioethics, from UBC. His research interests include clinical ethics consultation, ethics and public health policy, health care resource allocation, the work of ethics services in both clinical and organizational ethics, ethical decision-making, ethics in Islam, and bioethics in a multicultural context. Some of the professional committees and task forces Bashir has been involved in include the Board of the Canadian Bioethics Society, the Canadian Blood Services' Organ Donation and Transplantation Expert Advisory Committee, Practicing Healthcare Ethicists Exploring Professionalization, the College of Physicians and Surgeons of BCs Ethical Standards and Conduct Review, and the BC College of Pharmacy Ethics Committee. Bashir is also an experienced speaker, having delivered hundreds of workshops and presentations across the country and internationally on issues in ethics and health ethics both for academic audiences and to health care administrators, providers, patients and the public.
Herstellerkennzeichnung:
Springer Verlag GmbH
Tiergartenstr. 17
69121 Heidelberg
DE
E-Mail: juergen.hartmann@springer.com
