A practical, insightful guide to the moral and ethical standards of
healthcare
Succeeding in the healthcare field means more than just making a
diagnosis and writing a prescription. Healthcare professionals are
responsible for convincing patients and their family members of the
best course of action and treatments to follow, while knowing how
to make the right moral and ethical choices, and so much more.
Unlike daunting and expensive texts, Medical Ethics For
Dummies offers an accessible and affordable course supplement
for anyone studying medical or biomedical ethics.
* Follows typical medical and biomedical
ethics courses
* Covers real ethical dilemmas doctors,
nurses and other healthcare workers may face
* Includes moral issues surrounding stem
cell research, genetic engineering, euthanasia, and more
Packed with helpful information, Medical Ethics For Dummies
arms aspiring medical professionals with the philosophical and
practical foundation for advancing in a field where critical
ethical and moral decisions need to be rapidly and convincingly
made.
Spis treści
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
O autorze
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.
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