Professional Ethics and Primary Care Medicine

by Smith, Harmon L.; Churchill, Larry R. (CON)

• ISBN13: 9780822305217
• ISBN10: 0822305216
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1986-01-01
• Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

Summary

This volume moves beyond ethics as problem-solving or ethics as etiquette to offer a look at ethics in primary careas opposed to life-or-deathmedical care.Professional Ethics and Primary Care Medicinedeals with the ethics of routine, day-to-day encounters between doctors and patients. It probes beneath the hard decisions to look at the moral frameworks, habits of thought, and customs of practice that underlie choices. Harmon Smith and Larry Churchill argue that primary care, far from being merely a setting for the rendering of care, provides a new understanding of both physician and patient, and thereby offers a fresh basis for medical ethics.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(7)
Primary Care: A Moral Notion	7	(14)
Ethics and Professionalism	21	(24)
Moral Imagination and Medicine	45	(24)
Case Studies in Primary Care	69	(16)
Primary Care and Social Justice	85	(24)
Notes	109	(6)
Index	115