Doing right a practical guide to ethics for medical trainees and physicians

✍ Scribed by Hébert, Philip Charles

• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 380
• Edition: Third edition
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The third edition ofDoing Right: A Practical Guide to Ethics for Medical Trainees and Physiciansis a practical guide to analyzing and resolving the ethical dilemmas medical practitioners face on a day-to-day basis. Drawing extensively on real-life scenarios, this book takes a case-based approach to provide students and practitioners with the advice and skills they need to help their patients and overcome ethical challenges in the field. Fully revised to include up-to-date coverage of such important topics as patient-practitioner relationships in the digital age and advances in reproductive medicine and reproductive technologies, this third edition ofDoing Rightwill provide readers with the most up-to-date guidebook to medical ethics available.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 5
Cases......Page 8
Preface......Page 10
Introduction......Page 14
I. Ethical Reasoning and Principles in Medicine......Page 27
II. Three Ethical Principles and Questions......Page 34
III. “Resolving” Ethical Dilemmas......Page 39
IV. “Doing Right”: A Decision-Making Procedure for Clinical Ethics......Page 40
V. Applying the Ethics Decision-Making Procedure......Page 45
I. The Autonomy Principle......Page 53
II. The Case of Mrs Malette and Dr Shulman......Page 60
III. Choices: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly......Page 62
IV. Reduced Autonomy......Page 69
I. Rights of Privacy, Confidential Duties......Page 76
II. Professional Regulations......Page 82
III. Limits To Confidentiality......Page 88
IV. To Warn and to Protect......Page 93
V. The Digital Age......Page 97
I. On Not Telling the Truth......Page 102
II. The Truthtelling Task......Page 106
III. Modern Law and the Profession......Page 112
IV. The Changing Practice of Medicine......Page 113
V. Truthtelling’s Exceptions......Page 115
Chapter 5 The Power to Choose......Page 124
I. The Essence of Informed Consent......Page 125
II. Ethical Consent......Page 127
III. The Doctor Who Didn’t: The Case of Mr Reibl v. Dr Hughes......Page 128
IV. The Essential Elements of Consent: When, Who, What, How?......Page 130
V. Exceptions to Consent......Page 142
I. Attending to and Assessing Capacity......Page 149
II. Substitute Decision-Makers (SDM)......Page 160
III. Treatment of the Vulnerable......Page 163
IV. When Not to Rescue......Page 165
V. Failure to Care for Self......Page 168
VI. Cases Involving Minors......Page 170
Chapter 7 Helping and Not Harming......Page 175
I. The Principles of Beneficence and Non-Maleficence......Page 176
II. The “Duty to Rescue” the Patient......Page 183
III. Endangering One’s Self......Page 185
IV. In the Best Interests of Minors......Page 190
V. Parental Requests for Treatment......Page 195
I. Professionalism in Healthcare......Page 202
II. Professionals and the Drug Industry......Page 209
III. Boundaries and Crossings......Page 212
IV. The Error of Our Ways......Page 218
I. Justice in Everyday Medicine......Page 230
II. Distributive Justice......Page 234
III. Medically Necessary Treatment......Page 235
IV. The Role of Practice Guidelines......Page 245
V. The Health Professional’s Master......Page 249
I. Birthing and Reproductive Choice......Page 256
II. In the Interest of the Child: Being Born and Living Life......Page 263
III. The New Age of Reproduction......Page 266
IV. Desperately Seeking Stem Cells......Page 274
I. Allowing Death: Refusals by the Patient......Page 280
II. Advance Directives......Page 288
III. Who Is the Patient?......Page 289
IV. Lost Souls......Page 292
V. Physician-Accelerated Death (PAD)......Page 297
I. Cultural Connections......Page 306
II. All in the Genome?......Page 315
III. Ethical Regulation of Research......Page 319
IV. Some Questions and Answers RegardingResearch......Page 326
Conclusion......Page 334
Notes......Page 339
Index......Page 373

✦ Subjects

Philosophy;Nonfiction;Medical