Clinical Ethics: A Practical Approach to Ethical Decisions in Clinical Medicine, Ninth Edition

The go-to textbook on the increasingly important and rapidly evolving topic of medical ethics

Clinical Ethics is the most popular clinically oriented guide to the complex field of medical ethics. It provides crystal-clear case-based coverage of ethical situations encountered in everyday medical practice.

This unparalleled guide is famous for its four-topics method of approaching ethical problems (medical indications, patient preferences, quality of life, and contextual features)-an organizational process that helps you better understand the complexities involved in clinical ethics cases and find a resolution for each case. In each chapter, the authors discuss case examples and provide analysis, comments, and specific recommendations.

Sections and chapters include:

TOPIC 1: Medical Indications
Indicated and Nonindicated InterventionsClinical Judgment and Clinical UncertaintyCardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Orders not to ResuscitateMedical ErrorDetermination of DeathTOPIC 2: Preferences of Patients
Informed ConsentDecisional CapacityDecision Making for the Mentally Incapacitated PatientSurrogate Decision MakersFailure to Cooperate in the Therapeutic RelationshipTOPIC 3: Quality of Life
Divergent Evaluations of Quality of LifeEnhancement MedicineCompromised Quality of Life and Life-Sustaining InterventionsPain Relief for Terminally Ill PatientsMedically Assisted DyingSuicideTOPIC 4: Contextual Features
Health ProfessionsOther Interested PartiesConfidentiality of Medical InformationEconomics of Clinical CareAllocation of Scarce Health ResourcesInfluence of Religion on Clinical DecisionsRole of Law in Clinical EthicsClinical Research and EducationPublic HealthOrganizational Ethics