Overview

Surgical ethics is the application of ethics to issues specific to surgery. This volume provides a collection of clinical case studies representing a wide range of the ethical issues surgeons confront today. It is an excellent text for teaching surgical ethics to surgical residents and medical students and a fascinating read for practicing surgeons. It is intended to engage the reader into participating in evidence-based ethical conflicts. The authors escort us through 71 brief, realistic, and ethically complex problems, offering a series of five possible resolutions to each and guiding us through the relative benefits and weaknesses of the options until a best ethical choice is defended. The volume includes sections on Consent and Disclosure, Self-Regulation, Research and Innovation, Conflicts of Interest, Business Dealings, and End of Life Issues, each with a brief introduction by the authors.

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Author:   James W. Jones (Professor of Medicine and Medical Ethics, Professor of Medicine and Medical Ethics, Baylor College of Medicine, USA) ,  Laurence B. McCullough (Professor of Medical Ethics, Professor of Medical Ethics, Baylor College of Medicine, USA) ,  Bruce W. Richman (Professor of Medicine and Medical Writing, Professor of Medicine and Medical Writing, Baylor College of Medicine (retired), USA)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 22.90cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 15.50cm
Weight:   0.513kg
ISBN:  

9780195321098

ISBN 10:   019532109
Pages:   360
Publication Date:   03 July 2008
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1: Introduction: A Primer on Surgical Ethics 2: Informed Consent and Disclosure 1. Painted into a Corner: Unexpected Complications in Treating a Jehovah's Witness 2. A Patient Refuses Consent for Life-Saving Surgery 3. Consent for an Intraoperative Video Recording 3: Professional Self-Regulation 11. What to Tell Patients Harmed by Other Physicians 12. Eye-Witness to Incompetent Surgery 13. Military Physician's Ethical Response to Evidence of Torture 4: Innovation and Research 22. When Does Conventional Surgery Become Research? 23. A Surgeon's Obligation When Performing New Procedures 24. The Ethics of Innovative Approaches for Well-Established Procedures 5: Conflicts of Interest and Conflicts of Commitment 33. Intentional Over-Treatment: The Unmentionable Conflict of Interest 34. Patient Responsibilities, Family Responsibilities 35. Non-Financial Conflicts of Interest 6: The Ethics of Surgery as a Surgery 44. Ethics of Physician's Income 45. Ethics of Personal Advertising in Surgery 46. Ethics of Institutional Marketing: The Role of Physicians 7: Medical Professionalism Challenges: Assaults from Within and Without 56. Going Public with Amazing Cases: Fiat or Fiasco? 57. Unprofessional Behavior the Disrupts: Crossing the Life 58. My Brother's Keeper: Ethics of Uncompensated Care for Undocumented Immigrants 8: End-of-Life Issues 63. Futility and Surgical Intervention 64. Advanced Age, Dementia, and an Abdominal Aneurysm: Intervene? 65. Complying with Advance Directives in the OR 66. Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm in a Death Row Inmate 67. Telling the Truth About Terminal Diseases 68. Arsenic and Old Lace: End of Life Care in the Post-Operative 69. Training on Newly Deceased Patients 70. Withdrawal of Life-Sustaining Low-Burden Care 71. Physician Assisted Suicide: Has it Come of Age?

Reviews

This book is a needed addition to the growing body of work focused on a particular specialty in healthcare. It will be an invaluable tool for surgeons and those involved in the formation of future surgeons, not only as technicians, but as those charged with upholding the virtues which engender the trust of their patients. --Doody's - a 5 star review! Anyone who thinks the field of medical ethics is wishy-washy and fuzzy will be challenged by this book. The authors take on hard cases and give hard answers. The case format is perfect for discussion in academic centers and for residents as part of professional competency training. The book provides a thoughtful and interesting case-oriented approach to contemporary medical ethics in general. --New England Journal of Medicine The beauty of this book is that it speaks in the language of surgeons as well as ethicists. The level of clinical detail in the cases allows each to hit the resident or practicing surgeon very close to him. The ethical analysis, while brief, shows a broad familiarity with the ethics literature. Furthermore, there are many references to episodes in surgical history, grounding the discourse in a historical context--a strategy endearing to the heart of every surgeon....This collection of cases and analyses goes a long way in laying the foundation for a generation of surgeons who must cultivate the virtues necessary to care for the surgical patient. --Ethics and Medicine

<br> This book is a needed addition to the growing body of work focused on a particular specialty in healthcare. It will be an invaluable tool for surgeons and those involved in the formation of future surgeons, not only as technicians, but as those charged with upholding the virtues which engender the trust of their patients. --Doody's - a 5 star review!<p><br> Anyone who thinks the field of medical ethics is wishy-washy and fuzzy will be challenged by this book. The authors take on hard cases and give hard answers. The case format is perfect for discussion in academic centers and for residents as part of professional competency training. The book provides a thoughtful and interesting case-oriented approach to contemporary medical ethics in general. --New England Journal of Medicine<p><br> The beauty of this book is that it speaks in the language of surgeons as well as ethicists. The level of clinical detail in the cases allows each to hit the resident or practicing surgeon very close

<br> This book is a needed addition to the growing body of work focused on a particular specialty in healthcare. It will be an invaluable tool for surgeons and those involved in the formation of future surgeons, not only as technicians, but as those charged with upholding the virtues which engender the trust of their patients. --Doody's - a 5 star review!<br> Anyone who thinks the field of medical ethics is wishy-washy and fuzzy will be challenged by this book. The authors take on hard cases and give hard answers. The case format is perfect for discussion in academic centers and for residents as part of professional competency training. The book provides a thoughtful and interesting case-oriented approach to contemporary medical ethics in general. --New England Journal of Medicine<br> The beauty of this book is that it speaks in the language of surgeons as well as ethicists. The level of clinical detail in the cases allows each to hit the resident or practicing surgeon very close to hi

This book is a needed addition to the growing body of work focused on a particular specialty in healthcare. It will be an invaluable tool for surgeons and those involved in the formation of future surgeons, not only as technicians, but as those charged with upholding the virtues which engender the trust of their patients. --Doody's - a 5 star review!<br>

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