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9780071387637

Clinical Ethics : A Practical Approach to Ethical Decisions in Clinical Medicine

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  • ISBN13:

    9780071387637

  • ISBN10:

    0071387633

  • Edition: 5th
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2002-05-22
  • Publisher: McGraw-Hill Medical
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Shows health care professionals how to identify, analyze, and resolve ethical issues in clinical medicine, using the Four-Box Method ( medical indications, patient preferences, quality of life, and contextual features). The Fifth Edition emphasizes evidence-based medicine, and explores new issues in treatment and research.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION

The Four Topics: Case Analysis in Clinical Ethics

References

The Four Topics Chart

CHAPTER 1. Indications for Medical Intervention

1.1 Inappropriate Interventions

1.2 Orders not to Attempt Resuscitation

1.3 Care of the Dying Patient

1.4 Legal Implications of Forgoing Treatment

1.5 Determination of Death

CHAPTER 2. Preferences of Patients

2.1 Informed Consent

2.2 Decisional Capacity

2.3 Beliefs due to Religious and Cultural Diversity

2.4 Truthful Communication

2.5 Competent Refusal of Treatment

2.6 Advance Planning

2.7 Decision-Making for the Mentally Incapacitated Patient

2.8 The Limits of Patient Preferences

2.9 Failure to Cooperate with Medical Recommendation

2.10 Alternative Medicine

CHAPTER 3. Quality of Life

3.1 Enhancing Quality of Life

3.2 Objective Criteria for Quality of Life

3.3 Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide

3.4 Suicide

CHAPTER 4. Contextual Features

4.1 Role of Interested Parties

4.2 Physician Confidentiality

4.3 The Economics of Health Care

4.4 Allocation of Scarce Health Resources

4.5 Religion

4.6 The Role of the Law in Clinical Ethics

4.7 Clinical Research

4.8 Clinical Teaching

4.9 Occupational Medicine

4.10 Public Health

4.11 Ethics Committees

4.12 Ethics Consultation

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