Doing Clinical Ethics A Hands-on Guide for Clinicians and Others /

• Main Author: Sokol, Daniel K. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2012.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Ethics, 1
• Subjects: Medicine.; Ethics.; Medicine > Philosophy.; Medical ethics.; Medicine & Public Health.; Theory of Medicine/Bioethics.; Philosophy of Medicine.

In this Brief, Daniel Sokol interprets ‘doing medical ethics’ broadly to capture the application of ethical knowledge to a concrete situation, rather than just resolving a moral dilemma contained within a case. It instructs clinicians on how to identify and analyse a clinical ethics case, and guides...

Table of Contents:

• Foreword
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Clinical ethics at the coal face
•   Chapter 2:  Clinical ethics on paper
•   Chapter 3: Teaching clinical ethics to medical students and clinicians
•   Chapter 4: Submitting an application to a Research Ethics Committee
• Conclusion .-.