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

AvAlbert Jonsen,Mark Siegler

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

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Beskrivning

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

A Doody's Core Title for 2024 & 2023!

Ethical issues are embedded in every clinical encounter between patients and clinicians. In order to practice excellent clinical care, clinicians must understand ethical issues such as informed consent, decisional capacity, surrogate decision making, truth telling, confidentiality, privacy, the distinction between research and clinical care, and end-of-life care. This popular, clinically-oriented guide provides crystal-clear case-based coverage of the ethical situations encountered in everyday medical practice.

Clinical Ethics introduces the proven Four Box Method—a much-needed pattern for collecting, sorting, and ordering the facts of a clinical ethical problem. This easy-to-apply system is based on simple questions about medical indications, patient preferences, quality of life, and contextual features that explain clinical ethics and help clinicians formulate a sound diagnosis and treatment strategy. In each chapter, the authors discuss case examples and provide analysis, comments, and specific recommendations.

The book is divided into the four topics that constitute the essential ethical structure of every clinical encounter:

Medical Indications
Preferences of Patients
Quality of Life
Contextual Features

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2022-01-17
Mått:152 x 226 x 17 mm
Vikt:358 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:272
Upplaga:9
Förlag:McGraw-Hill Education
ISBN:9781260457544

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IntroductionThe Four Topics Ethical Reasoning in Clinical Ethics Resources in Clinical Ethics Acknowledgements Bibliography The Four Topics Chart TOPIC ONEMedical Indications 1.1 Indicated and Nonindicated Interventions1.2 Clinical Judgment and Clinical Uncertainty1.3 Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Orders not to Resuscitate1.4 Medical Error1.5 Determination of Death1.6 Summary TOPIC TWOPreferences of Patients2.1 Informed Consent2.2 Decisional Capacity 2.3 Decision Making for the Mentally Incapacitated Patient 2.4 Surrogate Decision Makers 2.5 Failure to Cooperate in the Therapeutic RelationshipTOPIC THREEQuality of Life3.1 Divergent Evaluations of Quality of Life3.2 Enhancement Medicine3.3 Compromised Quality of Life and Life-Sustaining Interventions3.4 Pain Relief for Terminally Ill Patients3.5 Medically Assisted Dying3.6 SuicideTOPIC FOURContextual Features4.1 Health Professions4.2 Other Interested Parties4.3 Confidentiality of Medical Information 4.4 Economics of Clinical Care 4.5 Allocation of Scarce Health Resources 4.6 Influence of Religion on Clinical Decisions 4.7 Role of Law in Clinical Ethics 4.8 Clinical Research and Education 4.9 Public Health 4.10 Organizational Ethics