INDICE: Introduction. Part I: Medical Ethics, or Doing the Right Thing. Chapter 1: What Are Medical Ethics? Chapter 2: Morality in Medicine. Chapter 3: The Provider-Patient Relationship. Chapter 4: Outside the Examining Room: Running an Ethical Practice. Chapter 5: Learning from Mistakes: Disclosing Medical Errors. Part II: A Patient's Right to Request, Receive, and Refuse Care. Chapter 6: The Ethical Challenges in Distributing Basic Healthcare. Chapter 7: WhenSpirituality and Cultural Beliefs Affect Care. Chapter 8: Parental Guidance and Responsibilities. Part III: Ethics at the Beginning and End of Life. Chapter 9: Two Lives, One Patient: Pregnancy Rights and Issues. Chapter 10: When Science Supersedes Sex: Reproductive Technology and Surrogacy. Chapter 11: Walking a Fine Line: Examining the Ethics of Abortion. Chapter 12: Determining Death: Not an Event, but a Process. Chapter 13: Death with Dignity: The Right to Appropriate End-of-Life Care. Part IV: Advancing Medical Knowledge with Ethical Clinical Research. Chapter 14: Toward Trials without Error: The Evolution of Ethics in Clinical Research. Chapter 15: Beyond Guinea Pigs: Anatomy of an Ethical Clinical Trial. Chapter 16: Research in Special Populations. Chapter 17: Its All in the Genes: The Ethics of Stem Cell and Genetic Research. Part V: ThePart of Tens. Chapter 18: Ten Ethical Issues to Address with Your Patients. Chapter 19: Ten High-Profi le Medical Ethics Cases. Chapter 20: Almost Ten Ethical Issues for the Future. Index.
- ISBN: 978-0-470-87856-9
- Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 384
- Fecha Publicación: 03/12/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés