Description
Book SynopsisSucceeding in the healthcare field means more than just making a diagnosis and writing a prescription. Healthcare professionals are responsible for convincing patients and their family members of the best course of action and treatments to follow, whilst knowing how to make the right moral and ethical choices.
Table of ContentsIntroduction 1
Part I: Medical Ethics, or Doing the Right Thing 7
Chapter 1: What Are Medical Ethics? 9
Chapter 2: Morality in Medicine 19
Chapter 3: The Provider-Patient Relationship 33
Chapter 4: Outside the Examining Room: Running an Ethical Practice 55
Chapter 5: Learning from Mistakes: Disclosing Medical Errors 73
Part II: A Patient’s Right to Request, Receive, and Refuse Care 93
Chapter 6: The Ethical Challenges in Distributing Basic Healthcare 95
Chapter 7: When Spirituality and Cultural Beliefs Affect Care 113
Chapter 8: Parental Guidance and Responsibilities 127
Part III: Ethics at the Beginning and End of Life 147
Chapter 9: Two Lives, One Patient: Pregnancy Rights and Issues 149
Chapter 10: When Science Supersedes Sex: Reproductive Technology and Surrogacy 171
Chapter 11: Walking a Fine Line: Examining the Ethics of Abortion 195
Chapter 12: Determining Death: Not an Event, but a Process 219
Chapter 13: Death with Dignity: The Right to Appropriate End-of-Life Care 233
Part IV: Advancing Medical Knowledge with Ethical Clinical Research 257
Chapter 14: Toward Trials without Error: The Evolution of Ethics in Clinical Research 259
Chapter 15: Beyond Guinea Pigs: Anatomy of an Ethical Clinical Trial 275
Chapter 16: Research in Special Populations 293
Chapter 17: It’s All in the Genes: The Ethics of Stem Cell and Genetic Research 307
Part V: The Part of Tens 331
Chapter 18: Ten Ethical Issues to Address with Your Patients 333
Chapter 19: Ten High-Profi le Medical Ethics Cases 341
Chapter 20: Almost Ten Ethical Issues for the Future 349
Index 353
