Description
Book SynopsisScience and technology are advancing more rapidly than regulations or the law can interpret and integrate them into a supportive or regulatory framework. This book is written for all clinicians in the neurosciences specialties who need to examine and re-examine the ethical and legal implications of advances in clinical neurosciences.
Trade Review"Medical, ethical and legal issues interact acutely in neurological patients, and Dr. Szalados’s book on these issues is vital reading for the administrators, nurses, physicians, lawyers and ethicists who care for them." -- Denham Ward * M.D., Ph.D. *
Table of ContentsDisclaimer
Dedication
Preface
I. Morality, Ethics, and the Law: An Overview of the Foundations of Contemporary Clinical Ethical Analysis
II. Case Studies: Ethical and Legal Challenges in the Care of the Neurologically Injured Critically Ill Patient
III. Civil Law and Liability: The Law of Medical Malpractice
IV. Legal Reasoning, Legal Process, Legal Proof and Why it is Confusing to Clinician Scientists
V. Regulatory Law and the Clinical Practice of the Neurosciences
VI. Digital Medicine and the Data Revolution Managing Digital Distraction and EMR Liability While Leveraging Opportunities in Teleneurology and Telecritical Care
VII. Developing and Leading a Sustainable High Reliability High Performing Unit: Theories of Quality, Teamwork, Medical Error and Patient Safety
VIII. Neurolaw and the Integration of Neuroscience, Ethics, and the Law: The New Frontiers
IX. Conclusions and Afterword
Acknowledgements
About the Author
Index
