Introduction to Clinical Ethics: Perspectives from a Physician Bioethicist

Saleem Toro

ISBN 10: 3031308034 / ISBN 13: 9783031308031

Published by Springer, Springer, 2023

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This textbook offers an introduction to the field of bioethics, specifically from a practicing physician standpoint. It engages a wide range of recent scholarship and emerging research covering many crucial topics in clinical ethics. While there has been increasing attention to the role of bioethics in medicine, the gap between theory and practice still exists, and it continues to impede the dialogue between health care professionals from one side and bioethicists and philosophers of medicine from the other side. This book builds bridges and open channels of connection between different parties in these conversations. It does so from a physician's practical perspective, engaging recent scholarship and emerging research, to shed light on pivotal ethical dilemmas in contemporary clinical practice.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Introduction to Clinical Ethics: Perspectives from a Physician Bioethicist
• Publisher: Springer, Springer
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3031308034
• ISBN 13: 9783031308031
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 241W x 160H x 18D millimeters 241 millimeters width by 160 millimeters height by 18 millimeters depth
• Weight: 500 grams

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Synopsis

This textbook offers an introduction to the field of bioethics, specifically from a practicing physician standpoint. It engages a wide range of recent scholarship and emerging research covering many crucial topics in clinical ethics. While there has been increasing attention to the role of bioethics in medicine, the gap between theory and practice still exists, and it continues to impede the dialogue between health care professionals from one side and bioethicists and philosophers of medicine from the other side. This book builds bridges and open channels of connection between different parties in these conversations. It does so from a physician’s practical perspective, engaging recent scholarship and emerging research, to shed light on pivotal ethical dilemmas in contemporary clinical practice.

About the Author

Dr. Toro is a cardiology fellow at the Houston Methodist Hospital, Texas, USA.
 
In 2011 he earned his Medical Diploma from The University of Kalamoon in Syria. Following that, he worked as a General Practitioner in Aleppo for two years. In 2013 he moved to the United States and worked as a research fellow at the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine at Tufts Medical Center in Boston. In 2015 he started his professional training in Internal Medicine at Cleveland Clinic in Ohio and became board-certified in Internal Medicine in 2018.
 Following residency training, Dr. Toro practiced hospital medicine for two years. Then he was appointed as a clinical associate staff in the medical intensive care unit at Cleveland Clinic, Ohio. Dr. Toro is also active in Cardiovascular Research and has publications in Cardiovascular Imaging and Electrophysiology.