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The go-to textbook on the increasingly important and rapidly evolving topic of medical ethics A Doody's Core Title for 2023! Ethical issues are embedded in every clinical encounter between patients and clinicians. In order to practice excellent clinical care, clinicians must understand ethical issues such as informed consent, decisional capacity, surrogate decision making, truth telling, confidentiality, privacy, the distinction between research and clinical care, and end-of-life care. This popular, clinically-oriented guide provides crystal-clear case-based coverage of the ethical situations encountered in everyday medical practice. Clinical Ethics introduces the proven Four Box Method—a much-needed pattern for collecting, sorting, and ordering the facts of a clinical ethical problem. This easy-to-apply system is based on simple questions about medical indications, patient preferences, quality of life, and contextual features that explain clinical ethics and help clinicians formulate a sound diagnosis and treatment strategy. In each chapter, the authors discuss case examples and provide analysis, comments, and specific recommendations. The book is divided into the four topics that constitute the essential ethical structure of every clinical encounter: Medical Indications Preferences of Patients Quality of Life Contextual Features

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Author:   Albert Jonsen ,  Mark Siegler ,  William Winslade ,  William Winslade
Publisher:   McGraw-Hill Education
Imprint:   McGraw-Hill Education
Edition:   9th edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.60cm
Weight:   0.358kg
ISBN:  

9781260457544

ISBN 10:   1260457540
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   17 January 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Available To Order  
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Table of Contents

Introduction The Four Topics Ethical Reasoning in Clinical Ethics Resources in Clinical Ethics Acknowledgements Bibliography The Four Topics Chart TOPIC ONE Medical Indications 1.1 Indicated and Nonindicated Interventions 1.2 Clinical Judgment and Clinical Uncertainty 1.3 Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Orders not to Resuscitate 1.4 Medical Error 1.5 Determination of Death 1.6 Summary TOPIC TWO Preferences of Patients 2.1 Informed Consent 2.2 Decisional Capacity 2.3 Decision Making for the Mentally Incapacitated Patient 2.4 Surrogate Decision Makers 2.5 Failure to Cooperate in the Therapeutic Relationship TOPIC THREE Quality of Life 3.1 Divergent Evaluations of Quality of Life 3.2 Enhancement Medicine 3.3 Compromised Quality of Life and Life-Sustaining Interventions 3.4 Pain Relief for Terminally Ill Patients 3.5 Medically Assisted Dying 3.6 Suicide TOPIC FOUR Contextual Features 4.1 Health Professions 4.2 Other Interested Parties 4.3 Confidentiality of Medical Information 4.4 Economics of Clinical Care 4.5 Allocation of Scarce Health Resources 4.6 Influence of Religion on Clinical Decisions 4.7 Role of Law in Clinical Ethics 4.8 Clinical Research and Education 4.9 Public Health 4.10 Organizational Ethics

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