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Clinical Ethics teaches the widely-known Four-Topics Method to help you make the right choice when facing complex ethical questions and dilemmas encountered during everyday patient care. You will learn an easy-to-apply system based on simple questions about medical indications, patient preferences, quality of life, and contextual features that clearly explain clinical ethics and helps you formulate a sound diagnosis and treatment strategy.
Clinical Ethics: A Practical Approach to Ethical Decisions in Clinical Medicine
Overview
A unique structured approach to solving ethical issues that arise in daily clinical practice
A Doody's Core Title for 2011!
Clinical Ethics teaches the widely-known Four-Topics Method to help you make the right choice when facing complex ethical questions and dilemmas encountered during everyday patient care. You will learn an easy-to-apply system based on simple questions about medical indications, patient preferences, quality of life, and contextual features that clearly explain clinical ethics and helps you formulate a sound diagnosis and treatment strategy.
- Goes beyond theory to offer a solid decision-making strategy applicable to real-world practice
- Numerous clinical case examples link principles to everyday practice--many new to this edition
- Practical coverage of important legal issues
- Ethical considerations in palliative care, medically assisted death, clinical research, and other timely issues
- Perfect for students, trainees, clinicians, ethics committee members, nurses, and patients
- Handy four-topics chart pullout card
Customer Review
This is a good introductory ethics book. The authors thoroughly discuss "The Four Topics" of Medical Indications, Patient Preferences, Quality of Life and Contextual Features and include information for those dealing with pediatric ethical issues. Also included in the topics are case studies to help clarify or highlight certain sections within each chapter. The only issue I have with this book is that some of the individual sections under the four topics seem to run too long, while others are not discussed enough. All in all, this is a good resource for those studying clinical ethics.
Clinical Ethics: A Practical Approach to Ethical Decisions in Clinical Medicine
