Clinical Ethics - Softcover

Albert R. Jonsen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0070331200 ISBN 13: 9780070331204

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies, 1997

Synopsis

This edition of this best-selling title continues to offer sage advice about the often difficult decisions health professionals encounter daily concerning ethics and medical issues. This handy book provides a broad knowledge base as well as different perspectives so the best solution can emerge. A Physician, lawyer and ethicist combine expertise and supply invaluable insight on cutting edge issues: death and dying, assisted suicide, AIDS, economics of care, maternal fetal issues and more. Abundant clinical cases coupled with counsel instruction highlight the material.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

The right choice

Face the ethical issues that arise in clinical practice with this proven, practical approach.

Clinical Ethics brings you:
* The Four Topics Method: An easy approach used to identify, analyze, and resolve ethical problems in clinical medicine
* Abundant, concise, illustrative clinical case examples
* Current opinion on today's most controversial issues, such as physician-assisted death, genetic testing and screening, and stem-cell transplantation
* Ethical considerations in research trials, palliative care, and other growing medical areas
* Practical coverage of legal issues
* One of the leading guides to ethical health care

About the Author:

Albert R. Jonsen, PhD: Professor Emeritus of Ethics in Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Washington. Seattle, WA

Mark Siegler, MD: Lindy Bergman Distinguished Service Professor of Medicine; and Director, MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics, University of Chicago, IL

William J. Winslade, PhD, JD: University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston; and Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law, University of Houston, Health, Law, and Policy Institute, TX

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0070331200
• ISBN 13: 9780070331204
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 224