Medical Ethics in Clinical Practice

• Main Author: Zwitter, Matjaž (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: General practice (Medicine).; Medical ethics.; Oncology .; Palliative treatment.; Human genetics.; Reproductive medicine.; General Practice / Family Medicine.; Theory of Medicine/Bioethics.; Oncology.; Palliative Medicine.; Human Genetics.; Reproductive Medicine.

This book discusses medicine from an ethical perspective, whereas books on medical ethics more commonly present ethics from a bio-medical standpoint. The book is divided into 23 chapters. The introductory chapters present some basic concepts of medical ethics, such as the relation between the legal...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Ethics and law
• Ethical codes and declarations
• Ethical theories
• Ethical analysis
• Autonomy and its limitations
• Communication
• Relations in health care teams
• Professional malpractice
• Limited resources, priorities, and corruption
• Image of a physician
• Preventive medicine
• Ethics at the beginning of life
• Paediatrics
• Genetics
• Emergency medicine and transplantation
• Elderly and psychiatric patients
• Dying and death
• Research
• Unproven methods of diagnostics and treatment
• Physicians beyond patient care
• Students' seminars.