Doing Right is a concise and practical guide to ethical decision-making in medicine. The text is aimed at second and third year one-semester ethics coursesoffered in medical schools, health sciences departments and nursing programs.By taking an applied approach rather than a theoretical approach, this text serves the needs of medical and nursing students, residents and practising physicians by sorting through questions of moral principles relevant to the diverse and growing number of healthcare professionals INDICE: Introduction 1. Ethics matters: principles in ethically sound medicine 2. The almost revolution: autonomy and patient-based care 3. No man an island: confidentiality and trust 4. The power to heal: truth, lies and deception in clinical practice 5. The power to choose: due care and informed consent 6. The waning and waxing self: capacity and incapacity in medical care 7. Helping and not harming: beneficence and non-maleficence 8. Conduct becoming: medical professionalism and managing error 9. Beyond the patient: doing justice in medical care 10. Labour pains: ethics and new life 11. A dark wood: end-of-life decisions Conclusion: where to go from here
- ISBN: 978-0-19-542841-4
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 256
- Fecha Publicación: 01/11/2008
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés