Description
Book SynopsisThe Medical Council of India (MCI) has introduced a new medical curriculum which includes a one-month foundation course at entry level to medical school. The MCI has laid emphasis on 'AETCOM' (Attitude, Ethics, and Communication) module which is a welcome step. Medical ethics will help medical students acquire knowledge of medicolegal, societal, ethical and humanitarian principles that enable them to grow in their profession and serve patients and society in a better way.
- Complete handbook on ethics in medicine.
- Includes the latest MCI Regulations on professional conduct, etiquettes and ethics.
- Follows the new Graduate Medical Education Regulations, 2018.
- All the chapters have been updated and expanded.
- Invaluble for the teaching and learning of medical ethics.
- Enables healthcare professionals to serve their patients and the society in a better way.
Table of ContentsSECTION 1 INTRODUCTION
1. Medical Ethics: Some Basic Issues
2. Teaching/Learning Medical Ethics
3. Codes of Conduct
SECTION 2 BIOETHICS
4. Malpractice and Negligence
5. Confidentiality (Professional Secrecy)
6. Autonomy and Informed Consent
7. Rights of Patients
SECTION 3 PROFESSIONAL AND PERSIONAL
8. Irrational Drug Therapy
SECTION 4 BEGINNING OF LIFE
9. Right to Life
10. Sex Preselection and Female Feticide
11. Assisted Reproductive Technologies
SECTION 5 END OF LIFE
12. Care of the Terminally Ill
13. Euthanasia
SECTION 6 HEALTH POLICY AND HEALTH CARE
14. Health Policy
15. Distributive Justice in Health Care
16. Technology
SECTION 7 EMERGING ISSUES
17. Alternate Medicine
18. Organ Transplantation
19. HIV/AIDS
20. Genetics
SECTION 8 HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION AND RESEARCH
21. Human Experimentation
22. Clinical Trials
Annexure: Indian Medical Council (Profession Conduct, Etiquettes and Ethics) Regulations, 2002
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