Discusses the issues surrounding medical ethics, including abortion, surrogate motherhood, AIDS, transplants, and terminal illness.
Clinical ethics is a relatively new discipline within medicine, generated not so much by the Can we . . . ? questions of fact and prognosis that physicians usually address, but primarily by the more uncomfortable gray areas having to do ...
Each chapter contains case examples drawn from personal experience or from the media. This edition also includes cartoons to highlight cutting edge and topical issues.
Issues in medical ethics are rarely out of the media and it is an area of ethics that has particular interest for the general public as well as the medical practitioner.
In this influential book, outstanding scholars in medical ethics bring these many methods together in one place to be systematically described, critiqued, and challenged.
Assesses the ethical problems that doctors face every day and advocates a more universal code of medical ethics, one that draws on the traditions of religion and philosophy
The second edition of Medical Ethics deals accessibly with a broad range of significant issues in bioethics, and presents the reader with the latest developments.
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Medical ethics 101 — discover how to protect your patients' privacy, how to communicate with them, and your obligation to uphold their rights Respect your patients' wishes — find out how to work with patients who refuse medical care, ...
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
The Blackwell Guide to Medical Ethics is a guide to the complex literature written on the increasingly dense topic of ethics in relation to the new technologies of medicine.