David Seedhouse

This second edition aims to demonstrate how ethics and health care are bound together. It is revised and updated to incorporate the experience of the author in meeting the needs of today's students and health care professionals.

This work is a practical guide to the key concepts in nursing and health care. Seedhouse explores and defines each concept in a separate chapter, asking what they mean and how they can be applied in every day practice.

Seedhouse sets out to clarify and develop the range of theories in health promotion, identify their philosophical source and explain their implications for practical work, teaching students to use logic to fill the gap between rhetoric and practice.

'Thoughtful Health Care' offers a timely antidote to a climate dominated by endless rules, regulations, mission statements and codes of practice. Fixation on avoiding risk at all costs has created a checkbox culture where everyone is treated according to standardised plans. But people are complicated, and cannot be understood disconnected from the complex histories, values, and environments that shape us. Obsessive focus on 'safety first' has obscured...