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The go-to textbook on the increasingly important and rapidly evolving topic of medical ethics

Clinical Ethics is the most popular clinically oriented guide to the complex field of medical ethics. It provides crystal-clear case-based coverage of ethical situations encountered in everyday medical practice.

This unparalleled guide is famous for its four-topics method of approaching ethical problems (medical indications, patient preferences, quality of life, and contextual features)—an organizational process that helps you better understand the complexities involved in clinical ethics cases and find a resolution for each case. In each chapter, the authors discuss case examples and provide analysis, comments, and specific recommendations.

Sections and chapters include:

TOPIC 1: Medical Indications

  • Indicated and Nonindicated Interventions
  • Clinical Judgment and Clinical Uncertainty
  • Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Orders not to Resuscitate
  • Medical Error
  • Determination of Death
TOPIC 2: Preferences of Patients

  • Informed Consent
  • Decisional Capacity
  • Decision Making for the Mentally Incapacitated Patient
  • Surrogate Decision Makers
  • Failure to Cooperate in the Therapeutic Relationship
TOPIC 3: Quality of Life

  • Divergent Evaluations of Quality of Life
  • Enhancement Medicine
  • Compromised Quality of Life and Life-Sustaining Interventions
  • Pain Relief for Terminally Ill Patients
  • Medically Assisted Dying
  • Suicide
TOPIC 4: Contextual Features

  • Health Professions
  • Other Interested Parties
  • Confidentiality of Medical Information
  • Economics of Clinical Care
  • Allocation of Scarce Health Resources
  • Influence of Religion on Clinical Decisions
  • Role of Law in Clinical Ethics
  • Clinical Research and Education
  • Public Health
  • Organizational Ethics






Clinical Ethics: A Practical Approach to Ethical Decisions in Clinical Medicine, Ninth Edition

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The go-to textbook on the increasingly important and rapidly evolving topic of medical ethicsClinical Ethics is the most popular clinically... Read more

    Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
    Publication Date: 17/01/2022
    ISBN13: 9781260457544, 978-1260457544
    ISBN10: 1260457540

    Number of Pages: 272

    Description

    The go-to textbook on the increasingly important and rapidly evolving topic of medical ethics

    Clinical Ethics is the most popular clinically oriented guide to the complex field of medical ethics. It provides crystal-clear case-based coverage of ethical situations encountered in everyday medical practice.

    This unparalleled guide is famous for its four-topics method of approaching ethical problems (medical indications, patient preferences, quality of life, and contextual features)—an organizational process that helps you better understand the complexities involved in clinical ethics cases and find a resolution for each case. In each chapter, the authors discuss case examples and provide analysis, comments, and specific recommendations.

    Sections and chapters include:

    TOPIC 1: Medical Indications

    • Indicated and Nonindicated Interventions
    • Clinical Judgment and Clinical Uncertainty
    • Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Orders not to Resuscitate
    • Medical Error
    • Determination of Death
    TOPIC 2: Preferences of Patients

    • Informed Consent
    • Decisional Capacity
    • Decision Making for the Mentally Incapacitated Patient
    • Surrogate Decision Makers
    • Failure to Cooperate in the Therapeutic Relationship
    TOPIC 3: Quality of Life

    • Divergent Evaluations of Quality of Life
    • Enhancement Medicine
    • Compromised Quality of Life and Life-Sustaining Interventions
    • Pain Relief for Terminally Ill Patients
    • Medically Assisted Dying
    • Suicide
    TOPIC 4: Contextual Features

    • Health Professions
    • Other Interested Parties
    • Confidentiality of Medical Information
    • Economics of Clinical Care
    • Allocation of Scarce Health Resources
    • Influence of Religion on Clinical Decisions
    • Role of Law in Clinical Ethics
    • Clinical Research and Education
    • Public Health
    • Organizational Ethics






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