Surgical ethics is the application of ethics to issues specific to surgery. This volume contains a collection of clinical case studies outlining the wide range of ethical issues facing surgeons today. It is an excellent text for teaching ethics ...
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Contemporary Debates in Bioethics 2013
This book provides a timely collection of highly readable debate-style arguments contributed by many of today's leading bioethics scholars, focusing on the core bioethical issues of the 21st century. It is written in an engaging format in the style of...
A clinician's understanding of ethics in palliative care:: an American perspective
I believe that the standard for ethical decision-making should be the same for all patients: appropriate medical interventions, careful consideration of their benefits and burdens, and respect for patients' lives. When a cure is not possible, the balance between...
Doing Right: A Practical Guide to Ethics for Medical Trainees and Physicians 2019
A case-based approach that provides the advice and skills doctors need to help patients and useful in overcoming ethical challenges. This book offers both trainees and practitioners a comprehensive, user-friendly guide to...
Methods in Medical Ethics: Second Edition 2010
Hailed as an 'outstanding achievement' and a 'must-read for any serious student of bioethics', this book is the first systematic examination of the methods and analysis of a wide variety of disciplines - such as economic anthropology, epidemiology, health research, law,...
Ethics of palliative surgery in patients with cancer
Surgery is an important palliative treatment for patients with advanced cancer. In addition to concerns about clinical decision-making, various moral challenges are encountered in palliative surgery. Some of these relate to the patients and their illness, others...
Medical Law and Ethics 2020
This book covers the basic legal principles, key cases and laws governing medical law, as well as the key debates and ethical dilemmas that exist in this field. Carefully structured it highlights these debates, showing European viewpoints,...
Intractable End-of-Life Suffering and the Ethics of Palliative Sedation
Palliative sedation (sedation causing unconsciousness) as an option of last resort for intractable end-of-life suffering has been the subject of ongoing discussion and debate, as well as policy formulation. A particularly controversial...
The Patient as Victim and Vector: Ethics and Infectious Disease 2008
This book explores how traditional and new issues in clinical medicine, research, public health and health policy may look different in infectious diseases. The authors argue that both practice and policy must recognise that the patient with...
Ethics and palliative care in the perinatal world,
2018 Colleen M.Marty, Brian S.Carter The perinatal world is unique in its conscientious consideration of two patients in decision-making and clinical management - the fetus and the pregnant woman. The potential of the fetal-newborn is intertwined with the absolute...
Building Bioethics: Conversations with Clouser and Friends on Medical Ethics 2010
K. Danner Clouser is one of the most important figures in establishing and shaping the fields of medical ethics, bioethics and philosophy of education in the second half of the 20th century. Clouser challenged many established approaches to moral theory and proposed innovative...
Giving Voice to Values as a Professional Physician: An Introduction to Medical Ethics 2018
This book provides students with the theoretical basis and practical applications for acting on their values in situations of ethical conflict. It is the first book on medical ethics to use the Giving Voice to Values methodology to...
Ethics in Palliative Care
Palliative care is required for incurable advanced-stage cancer and other incurable chronic diseases. Various aspects of palliative care, such as pain and symptom control, psychosocial care and end-of-life issues,...
Great Debates in Medical Law and Ethics 2018
This textbook is a challenging and engaging introduction to more advanced work in medical law and ethics, the main aim of which is to enable students to 'get under the skin' of the subject and begin to develop critical thinking skills and...
Letting Go: How to Plan for a Good Death 2019
Letting Go shows how to start thinking about the final stage of life before you get there, how to formulate a will that helps people make decisions on our behalf and how we can maintain our dignity and independence for as long as possible. Drawing on...