General Practice and Ethics

by Dowrick,Christopher

• ISBN13: 9780415164986
• ISBN10: 0415164982
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-06-21
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

General Practice and Ethicsexplores the ethical issues faced by general physicans in their everyday practice, addressing two central themes: the uncertainty of outcomes and effectiveness in general practice and the changing pattern of general practitioners' responsibilities.

Author Biography

Colin Bradley is Professor of General Practice and Head of Department at University College Cork, Ireland Angus Dawson is a philosopher who teaches health care ethics at the University of Liverpool Christopher Dowrick is Professor of Primary Medical Care at the University of Liverpool and a general practitioner in North Liverpool Len Doyal is Professor of Medical Ethics at St Bartholomew's and the Royal London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London Lucy Frith is a philosopher and is Lecturer in Health Care Ethics at the University of Liverpool Roger Higgs is a general practitioner in South London and Professor and Head of the Department of General Practice and Primary Care at King's College School of Medicine and Dentistry in London Roger Jones is Wolfson Professor of General Practice at Guy's, King's and St Thomas's School of Medicine, London Jean McHale is Senior Lecturer in Law, Faculty of Law, University of Manchester Carl May is Senior Research Fellow in Medical Sociology in the Department of General Practice, University of Manchester Nicola Mead read biology and philosophy at the University of Manchester before joining the staff of the National Primary Care Research and Development Centre, where she is now a Research Associate Sam Smith is a general practitioner and part-time clinical lecturer at the Department of Primary Care, University of Liverpool

Table of Contents

Notes on contributors	vii
General editor's foreword	ix
Acknowledgements	xi
Introduction	1	(10)
PART I Themes	11	(96)
Uncertainty and responsibility	13	(16)
Christopher Dowrick
Evidence-based medicine and general practice	29	(16)
Lucy Frith
Ethico-legal dilemmas within general practice: moral indeterminacy and abstract morality	45	(17)
Len Doyal
The general practitioner and confidentiality	62	(14)
Jean McHale
Patient-centredness: a history	76	(15)
Carl Mayand
Nicola Mead
Ethics and postmodernity	91	(16)
Sam Smith
PART II Topics	107	(84)
The ethics of prescribing	109	(25)
Colin Bradley
Depression in general practice	134	(16)
Roger Higgs
Advance directives	150	(22)
Angus Dawson
The ethics of research in general practice	172	(19)
Roger Jones
Index	191