Giving voice to values as a professional physician : an introduction to medical ethics

✍ Scribed by Bedzow, Ira

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 131
• Series: Giving voice to values on business ethics and corporate social responsibility collection.
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

1. Ethics, professionalism, and giving voice to values --
   The uniqueness of professionalism education --
   Professionalism as a value not a competency --
   Giving voice to values --
   Starting assumptions to give voice to one's values --
   2. Making moral decisions --
   The gut reaction --
   Moral awareness : bias check --
   Conformity bias --
   Obedience to authority --
   Framing --
   Recognizing and prioritizing facts and values --
   The patient-physician relationship --
   Patient autonomy --
   Physicians' professional goals --
   Physician authority and professional integrity --
   One note on values --
   Ethical frameworks --
   Deontological (Kantian) ethics --
   Consequentialist (utilitarian) ethics --
   Value(s) comparison between deontology and consequentialism --
   Principlism or the Four Principles approach --
   3. Acting on moral decisions --
   Moral (inaction) : rationalizations check --
   Personal-professional profiles --
   Considering other stakeholders --
   Organizational and systems-based levers --
   Creating scripts --
   4. Cases --
   Case 1 : Confronting a superior --
   Case 2 : HIV mothers and breastfeeding their newborns --
   Case 3 : Reporting a colleague --
   Case 4 : Talking to family members about a patient's medical information --
   CAse 5 : Speaking to a colleague about a patient's complaints --
   Case 6 : Complementary and alternative medicine --
   Case 7 : Talking to patients about assisted reproductive technologies --
   Case 8 : Withdrawing treatment and right to die --
   Case 9 : Determination of death --
   5. Conclusion.

✦ Subjects

Medical ethics;Medicine;Ethics, Medical