Bibliographic record and links to related information available from the Library of Congress catalog.
Note: Contents data are machine generated based on pre-publication provided by the publisher. Contents may have variations from the printed book or be incomplete or contain other coding.
Fundamentals of clinical ethics 1. An Approach to Ethical Dilemmas in Patient Care 2. Overview of Ethical Guidelines 3. Informed consent 4. Promoting best interests 5. Confidentiality 6. Avoiding deception, nondisclosure 7. Keeping promises Shared decision making 8. An approach to decisions 9. Futile interventions 10. Decision-making capacity 11. Refusal by competent patients 12. Standards for decisions 13. Surrogate decision-making 14 Persistent disagreements Decisions about life-sustaining interventions 15. Confusing ethical distinctions 16. Ethics committees, consultations 17. Do not attempt resuscitation orders 18. Tube and intravenous feedings 19. Physician-Assisted Suicide and Active Euthanasia 20. The persistent vegetative state 21. Determination of death 22. Legal rulings on life-sustaining interventions The doctor-patient relationship 23. Overview doctor-patient relationship 24. Refusal to care for patients 25. Gifts from patients to physicians 26. Sexual contact with patients 27. Secret information about patients 28 Clinical research Conflicts of interest 29. Overview 30. Bedside rationing 31. Incentives to increase services 32. Incentives to decrease services 33. Gifts from drug companies 34. Disclosing mistakes 35. Impaired colleagues 36. Ethical dilemmas trainees Ethical issues in clinical specialties 37. Ethical issues in pediatrics 38. Ethical issues in surgery 39. Ethical issues in obstetrics-gynecology 40. Ethical issues in psychiatry Current controversies 41. Organ transplantation 42. Testing for genetic conditions 43. Public health emergencies Cases for discussion
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Medical ethics.
Medicine -- Decision making.
Clinical medicine -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Ethics, Clinical -- Case Reports.