Naujausi A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T V W Y Z
Autoriai: JAMES F. DRANE
Metai:
ISBN: 1-55612-612-3
Brūkšninis kodas: 003076433628
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Anotacija:
Medical practice is an inherently ethical enterprise. More than ever before, medical practice requires that medical professionals develop and exercise high ethical standards. Health care practitioners who ignore basic concepts of medical ethics risk exposing their patients to serious harm, and open themselves and their institutions to charges of malpractice.
Clinical Bioethics provides for the busy clinical professional a concise, comprehensive complex new field.
This volume includes:
- general ethics theory
- case studies:
Quinlan
Cruzan
Tarasoff
Bartling
Bouvia
- Patient Self Determination Act
- AMA statement on Ethical and Judicial Affairs
- bibliography and additional resources
- practical medical applications
- ethical issues:
euthanasia
artificial alimentation
hi-tech medicine
informed concent
AIDS issues
- ethics standards:
patient competency
patient best interest
quality of life