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

About this edition

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