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
About the Author
McGraw-Hill authors represent the leading experts in their fields and are dedicated to improving the lives, careers, and interests of readers worldwide McGraw-Hill authors represent the leading experts in their fields and are dedicated to improving the lives, careers, and interests of readers worldwide McGraw-Hill authors represent the leading experts in their fields and are dedicated to improving the lives, careers, and interests of readers worldwide
Book Information
ISBN 9781260457544
Author Albert Jonsen
Format Paperback
Page Count 272
Imprint McGraw-Hill Education
Publisher McGraw-Hill Education
Weight(grams) 358g
Dimensions(mm) 226mm * 152mm * 18mm
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
- Informed Consent
- Decisional Capacity
- Decision Making for the Mentally Incapacitated Patient
- Surrogate Decision Makers
- Failure to Cooperate in the Therapeutic Relationship
- 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
- 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
About the Author
McGraw-Hill authors represent the leading experts in their fields and are dedicated to improving the lives, careers, and interests of readers worldwide McGraw-Hill authors represent the leading experts in their fields and are dedicated to improving the lives, careers, and interests of readers worldwide McGraw-Hill authors represent the leading experts in their fields and are dedicated to improving the lives, careers, and interests of readers worldwide
Book Information
ISBN 9781260457544
Author Albert Jonsen
Format Paperback
Page Count 272
Imprint McGraw-Hill Education
Publisher McGraw-Hill Education
Weight(grams) 358g
Dimensions(mm) 226mm * 152mm * 18mm
