CLINICAL ETHICS: A Practical Approach to Ethical Decisions in Clinical Medicine - Softcover

Jonsen, Albert R.; Siegler, Mark; Winslade, William J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0071387633 ISBN 13: 9780071387637

Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Appleton & Lange, 2002

Synopsis

Shows health care professionals how to identify, analyze, and resolve ethical issues in clinical medicine, using the Four-Box Method ( medical indications, patient preferences, quality of life, and contextual features). The Fifth Edition emphasizes evidence-based medicine, and explores new issues in treatment and research.

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

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Appleton & Lange
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0071387633
• ISBN 13: 9780071387637
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 202