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Medical Ethics For Dummies
Jane Runzheimer (Author), Linda Johnson Larsen (Author)
9780470878569, Wiley
Paperback / softback, published 3 December 2010
384 pages
22.9 x 18.5 x 2.8 cm, 0.522 kg
A practical, insightful guide to the moral and ethical standards of healthcare
Succeeding in the healthcare field means more than just making a diagnosis and writing a prescription. Healthcare professionals are responsible for convincing patients and their family members of the best course of action and treatments to follow, while knowing how to make the right moral and ethical choices, and so much more. Unlike daunting and expensive texts, Medical Ethics For Dummies offers an accessible and affordable course supplement for anyone studying medical or biomedical ethics.
• Follows typical medical and biomedical ethics courses
• Covers real ethical dilemmas doctors, nurses and other healthcare workers may face
• Includes moral issues surrounding stem cell research, genetic engineering, euthanasia, and more
Packed with helpful information, Medical Ethics For Dummies arms aspiring medical professionals with the philosophical and practical foundation for advancing in a field where critical ethical and moral decisions need to be rapidly and convincingly made.
Introduction 1 Part I: Medical Ethics, or Doing the Right Thing 7 Chapter 1: What Are Medical Ethics? 9 Chapter 2: Morality in Medicine 19 Chapter 3: The Provider-Patient Relationship 33 Chapter 4: Outside the Examining Room: Running an Ethical Practice 55 Chapter 5: Learning from Mistakes: Disclosing Medical Errors 73 Part II: A Patient’s Right to Request, Receive, and Refuse Care 93 Chapter 6: The Ethical Challenges in Distributing Basic Healthcare 95 Chapter 7: When Spirituality and Cultural Beliefs Affect Care 113 Chapter 8: Parental Guidance and Responsibilities 127 Part III: Ethics at the Beginning and End of Life 147 Chapter 9: Two Lives, One Patient: Pregnancy Rights and Issues 149 Chapter 10: When Science Supersedes Sex: Reproductive Technology and Surrogacy 171 Chapter 11: Walking a Fine Line: Examining the Ethics of Abortion 195 Chapter 12: Determining Death: Not an Event, but a Process 219 Chapter 13: Death with Dignity: The Right to Appropriate End-of-Life Care 233 Part IV: Advancing Medical Knowledge with Ethical Clinical Research 257 Chapter 14: Toward Trials without Error: The Evolution of Ethics in Clinical Research 259 Chapter 15: Beyond Guinea Pigs: Anatomy of an Ethical Clinical Trial 275 Chapter 16: Research in Special Populations 293 Chapter 17: It’s All in the Genes: The Ethics of Stem Cell and Genetic Research 307 Part V: The Part of Tens 331 Chapter 18: Ten Ethical Issues to Address with Your Patients 333 Chapter 19: Ten High-Profi le Medical Ethics Cases 341 Chapter 20: Almost Ten Ethical Issues for the Future 349 Index 353
Subject Areas: Medicine: general issues [MB]
