2 Pitt faculty published a book on nursing ethics

Michael Deem and Jennifer Lingler, both core faculty within Pitt’s Center for Bioethics and Health Law, co-edited a new book, “Nursing Ethics: Normative Foundations, Advanced Concepts, and Emerging Issues” (Oxford University Press).

The book is a collection of 20 original essays on nursing ethics by an international, interdisciplinary group of scholars, researchers and clinicians. The collection explores topics like the foundations and frameworks of nursing ethics, practical identity, moral agency in nursing and emerging ethical issues in nursing practice and health policy.

Michael Deem is an associate professor in the School of Public Health and director of Pitt Medicine’s Consortium Ethics Program, which provides continuing ethics education to health care professionals. Jennifer Lingler is a professor and vice chair of research in Pitt’s School of Nursing. Her federally and foundation-funded research focuses on psychosocial and ethical issues in dementia care and research, with an emphasis on provider-patient communication.