Resolving Ethical Dilemmas
Lippincott Williams and Wilkins (Verlag)
978-0-7817-9379-7 (ISBN)
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This timely Fourth Edition offers clinicians expert guidance in approaching a wide range of ethical dilemmas and developing an action plan. Most chapters include real-life sample cases that the author walks through, discussing the salient issues and how to approach them. This edition includes a new chapter on ethical issues in cross-cultural medicine and new material on conscientious objection by physicians in reproductive health and other areas. Other topics addressed include disclosure of errors to patients, gifts to physicians from drug companies, involuntary psychiatric treatment, genomic medicine, and ethical issues during public health emergencies such as pandemics. The updated discussion of organ transplantation includes increasing the donor pool and non-heart beating donors.
Section I: FUNDAMENTALS OF CLINICAL ETHICS Chapter 1: An Approach to Ethical Dilemmas in Patient Care Chapter 2: Overview of Ethical Guidelines Chapter 3: Informed Consent Chapter 4: Promoting the Patient's Best Interests Chapter 5: Confidentiality Chapter 6: Avoiding Deception and Nondisclosure Chapter 7: Keeping Promises Section II: SHARED DECISION MAKING Chapter 8: An Approach to Decisions about Clinical Interventions Chapter 9: Futile Interventions Chapter 10: Decision-making Capacity Chapter 11: Refusal of Treatment by Competent, Informed Patients Chapter 12: Standards for Decisions When Patients Lack Decision-making Capacity Chapter 13: Surrogate Decision Making Chapter 14: Persistent Disagreements over Care Section III: DECISIONS ABOUT LIFE-SUSTAINING INTERVENTIONS Chapter 15: Confusing Ethical Distinctions Chapter 16: Ethics Consultations and Ethics Committees Chapter 17: Do Not Attempt Resuscitation Orders Chapter 18: Tube and Intravenous Feedings Chapter 19: Physician-Assisted Suicide and Active Euthanasia Chapter 20: The Persistent Vegetative State Chapter 21: Determination of Death Chapter 22: Legal Rulings on Life-Sustaining Interventions Section IV: THE DOCTOR-PATIENT RELATIONSHIP Chapter 23: Overview of the Doctor-Patient Relationship Chapter 24: Refusal to Care for Patients Chapter 25: Gifts from Patients to Physicians Chapter 26: Sexual Contact between Physicians and Patients Chapter 27: Secret Information about Patients Chapter 28: Clinical Research Section V: CONFLICTS OF INTEREST Chapter 29: Overview of Conflicts of Interest Chapter 30: Bedside Rationing of Health Care Chapter 31: Incentives for Physicians to Increase Services Chapter 32: Measures to Control Health Care Costs Chapter 33: Gifts from Drug Companies Chapter 34: Disclosing Errors Chapter 35: Impaired Colleagues Chapter 36: Ethical Dilemmas Students and House Staff Face Section VI: ETHICAL ISSUES IN CLINICAL SUBSPECIALTIES Chapter 37: Ethical Issues in Pediatrics Chapter 38: Ethical Issues in Surgery Chapter 39: Ethical Issues in Obstetrics and Gynecology Chapter 40: Ethical Issues in Psychiatry Chapter 41: Ethical Issues in Organ Transplantation Chapter 42: Ethical issues in Genomic Medicine Chapter 43: Ethical Issues in Public Health Emergencies Chapter 44: Ethical Issues in Cross-Cultural Care CASES FOR DISCUSSION
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 1.2.2009 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 1 illustration |
| Verlagsort | Philadelphia |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 178 x 254 mm |
| Gewicht | 590 g |
| Themenwelt | Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Medizinethik |
| Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-7817-9379-3 / 0781793793 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-7817-9379-7 / 9780781793797 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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