Research Catalog

Title

Resolving ethical dilemmas : a guide for clinicians / Bernard Lo.

Author

Lo, Bernard.

Publication

Philadelphia, PA : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, [2005], ©2005.

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Details

Description

x, 309 pages : illustrations; 26 cm

Summary

"This book is a must-read for medical students and practicing professionals of every level of experience. Every day clinicians face ethical dilemmas, many of which result from medical advances and challenges in managed care. How practitioners resolve these challenges has a direct result on patient care. This Third Edition will keep you up to date on a wide range of ethical dilemmas and new ways of thinking about them."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

• Clinical medicine > Moral and ethical aspects
• Medical ethics
• Ethics, Clinical
• Medicine > Decision making
• Case Reports

Genre/Form

Case Reports.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. An approach to ethical dilemmas in patient care -- 2. Overview of ethical guidelines -- 3. Informed consent -- 4. Promoting the patient's best interests -- 5. Confidentiality -- 6. Avoiding deception and nondisclosure -- 7. Keeping promises -- 8. An approach to decisions about clinical interventions -- 9. Futile interventions -- 10. Decision-making capacity -- 11. Refusal of treatment by competent, informed patients -- 12. Standards for decisions when patients lack decision-making capacity -- 13. Surrogate decision making -- 14. Persistent disagreements over care -- 15. Confusing ethical distinctions -- 16. Ethics committees and case 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 -- 23. Overview of the doctor-patient relationship -- 24. Refusal to care for patients -- 25. Gifts from patients to physicians -- 26. Sexual contact between physicians and patients -- 27. Secret information about patients -- 28. Clinical research -- 29. Overview of conflicts of interest -- 30. Bedside rationing of health care -- 31. Incentives for physicians to increase services -- 32. Incentives for physicians to decrease services -- 33. Gifts from drug companies -- 34. Disclosing errors -- 35. Impaired colleagues -- 36. Ethical dilemmas students and house staff face -- 37. Ethical issues in pediatrics -- 38. Ethical issues in surgery -- 39. Ethical issues in obstetrics and gynecology -- 40. Ethical issues in psychiatry -- 41. Ethical issues in organ transplantation -- 42. Testing for genetic conditions -- 43. Ethical issues in public health emergencies.

ISBN

0781753570

LCCN

2005000146

OCLC

• ocm57382900
• SCSB-5169653

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries