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Medical Ethics for Dummies
Taschenbuch von Jane Runzheimer (u. a.)
Sprache: Englisch

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Learn to:

  • Guide patients and their families through treatment options and potential outcomes
  • Quickly and confidently make the right moral and ethical choices
  • Apply ethics to controversial issues

A practical, insightful guide to the ethical standards of healthcare

In your career as a medical professional, you'll be responsible for convincing patients and their family members of the best course of action and treatment to follow. Packed with helpful information, this hands-on, friendly guide arms you with the knowledge you need to make the best ethical decisions in various situations ? quickly and confidently.

  • 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, disagree with your opinion, or have personal beliefs that limit the medical treatment they are willing to receive
  • The circle of life ? get guidance on how to apply medical ethics to topics such as abortion, parental involvement with minors, assisted reproduction, end-of-life care, and euthanasia
  • Advancing medical knowledge ? see what it takes to conduct ethical clinical research on animals and humans, what is required to enroll patients in clinical trials, and the ethical implications that arise in stem cell and genetic research

Open the book and find:

  • Principles that guide ethical medical decisions
  • The distinctions and connections between ethics and morality
  • Day-to-day ethical challenges in the life of a medical professional
  • Advice on how to finance a deal
  • Information about managing your practice and working with other healthcare providers
  • Advice for disclosing medical errors to patients and colleagues
  • Tips for talking to patients about vaccination and organ donation
  • High-profile ethics cases that have shaped the practice of medicine

Learn to:

  • Guide patients and their families through treatment options and potential outcomes
  • Quickly and confidently make the right moral and ethical choices
  • Apply ethics to controversial issues

A practical, insightful guide to the ethical standards of healthcare

In your career as a medical professional, you'll be responsible for convincing patients and their family members of the best course of action and treatment to follow. Packed with helpful information, this hands-on, friendly guide arms you with the knowledge you need to make the best ethical decisions in various situations ? quickly and confidently.

  • 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, disagree with your opinion, or have personal beliefs that limit the medical treatment they are willing to receive
  • The circle of life ? get guidance on how to apply medical ethics to topics such as abortion, parental involvement with minors, assisted reproduction, end-of-life care, and euthanasia
  • Advancing medical knowledge ? see what it takes to conduct ethical clinical research on animals and humans, what is required to enroll patients in clinical trials, and the ethical implications that arise in stem cell and genetic research

Open the book and find:

  • Principles that guide ethical medical decisions
  • The distinctions and connections between ethics and morality
  • Day-to-day ethical challenges in the life of a medical professional
  • Advice on how to finance a deal
  • Information about managing your practice and working with other healthcare providers
  • Advice for disclosing medical errors to patients and colleagues
  • Tips for talking to patients about vaccination and organ donation
  • High-profile ethics cases that have shaped the practice of medicine
Über den Autor

Jane Runzheimer, MD, is a family physician who has served on the Ethics Committee of Methodist Hospital in St. Louis Park, Minnesota.

Linda Johnson Larsen has written 24 books, many of which have an emphasis on health, and has been a patient advocate for her husband and several family members.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
Fachbereich: Allgemeine Lexika
Genre: Medizin
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: 384 S.
ISBN-13: 9780470878569
ISBN-10: 0470878568
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Runzheimer, Jane
Larsen, Linda Johnson
Hersteller: Wiley
John Wiley & Sons
Maße: 235 x 191 x 21 mm
Von/Mit: Jane Runzheimer (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum: 07.12.2010
Gewicht: 0,719 kg
Artikel-ID: 107486614
Über den Autor

Jane Runzheimer, MD, is a family physician who has served on the Ethics Committee of Methodist Hospital in St. Louis Park, Minnesota.

Linda Johnson Larsen has written 24 books, many of which have an emphasis on health, and has been a patient advocate for her husband and several family members.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
Fachbereich: Allgemeine Lexika
Genre: Medizin
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: 384 S.
ISBN-13: 9780470878569
ISBN-10: 0470878568
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Runzheimer, Jane
Larsen, Linda Johnson
Hersteller: Wiley
John Wiley & Sons
Maße: 235 x 191 x 21 mm
Von/Mit: Jane Runzheimer (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum: 07.12.2010
Gewicht: 0,719 kg
Artikel-ID: 107486614
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