Foreword | |
Preface | |
Acknowledgements | |
Learning about ethics: why is it important? | p. 1 |
Professional duties: 'Trust me, I'm a doctor' | p. 13 |
Confidentiality: 'Your secret is safe with me' | p. 35 |
Screening in primary care: whose risk is it anyway? | p. 63 |
Matters of the mind | p. 89 |
The elements of consent: information and understanding | p. 115 |
Fertility: making babies - the haves and the have-nots | p. 137 |
Children: 'When will I be old enough?' | p. 163 |
A good death: ethics and humanity at the end of life | p. 189 |
Resource allocation: needs and wants | p. 213 |
Looking forward: the advance of ethics in general practice | p. 243 |
The Hippocratic Oath | p. 251 |
A modern Hippocratic Oath | p. 253 |
Duties of a doctor | p. 255 |
The Human Rights Act 1998 | p. 257 |
Glossary | p. 261 |
Further reading | p. 265 |
Index | p. 267 |
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