Clinical Medical Ethics: Landmark Works of Mark Siegler, MD

Throughout his career, Dr Mark Siegler has written on topics ranging from teaching clinical medical ethics to end-of-life decision-making and the ethics of technological advances. With more than 200 journal publications and 60 book chapters published in this area during his illustrious career, Dr Siegler has become a prominent scholar and teacher in the field. Indeed, his work has had a profound impact on a number of therapeutic fields. The importance of clinical ethics, which has gained prominence over the past 30 years, explores the practical, everyday ethical issues that arise in encounters between patients, doctors, nurses, allied health professionals and healthcare institutions. The goal of clinical ethics is to improve patient care and outcomes, and almost every major hospital now has an ethics committee or ethics consultation service to help address clinical ethical issues and almost every medical organisation now has an ethics committee and code of ethics. Most importantly, discussions of clinical ethics have become part of the routine clinical discourse that takes place in outpatient and hospital settings across the country. This landmark collection of Dr Siegler's 46 groundbreaking papers on the subject is organised around five themes including: restoring and transforming the ethical foundations of modern clinical medicine, the doctor-patient relationship, education and professionalism, end-of-life care and clinical innovation.