Full Description
The third edition of Doing RightTrainees and Physicians is a practical guide to analyzing and resolving the ethical dilemmas medical practitioners face on a day-to-day basis. Drawing extensively on real-life scenarios, this book takes a case-based approach to provide students and practitioners with the advice and skills they need to help their patients and overcome ethical challenges in the field. Fully revised toinclude up-to-date coverage of such important topics as patient-practitioner relationships in the digital age and advances in reproductive medicine and reproductive technologies, this third edition of Doing Right will provide readers with the most up-to-date guidebook to medical ethics available.
Contents
I. ETHICAL REASONING AND PRINCIPLES IN MEDICINE; II. THREE ETHICAL PRINCIPLES AND QUESTIONS; III. "RESOLVING" ETHICAL DILEMMAS; IV. "DOING RIGHT:" A DECISION-MAKING PROCEDURE FOR CLINICAL ETHICS; V. APPLYING THE ETHICS DECISION-MAKING PROCEDURE; I. THE AUTONOMY PRINCIPLE; II. THE CASE OF AND PROTECT; V. THE DIGITAL AGE; I. ON NOT TELLING THE TRUTH; II. THE TRUTH-TELLING TASK; III. MODERN LAW AND THE PROFESSION; IV. THE CHANGING PROFESSIONALS AND THE DRUG INDUSTRY; III. BOUNDARIES AND CROSSINGS; IV. THE THE HEALTH PROFESSIONAL'S MASTER; I. BIRTHING AND REPRODUCTIVE CHOICE; II. IN REPRODUCTION; IV. DESPERATELY SEEKING STEM CELLS; I. ALLOWING DEATH: REFUSALS SOULS; V. PHYSICIAN-ACCELERATED DEATH; I. CULTURAL CONNECTIONS; II. ALL IN THE GENOME?; III. SCIENTIFIC REVELATIONS; IV. SOME QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS REGARDING RESEARCH; CONCLUSION: GOING FROM HERE; NOTES; INDEX
