Medical ethics today : the BMAs handbook of ethics and law /

• Corporate Author: British Medical Association
• Other Authors: English, Veronica, Sommerville, Ann, Brannan, Sophie
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Chichester, West Sussex : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.
• Edition: 3rd ed.
• Subjects: Medical ethics > Great Britain > Handbooks, manuals, etc.; Ethics, Medical.; Jurisprudence.; MEDICAL > Ethics.; Medical ethics.; Great Britain.; Electronic books.; Handbooks and manuals.

This is your source for authoritative and comprehensive guidance from the British Medical Association (BMA) Medical Ethics Department covering both routine and highly contentious medico-legal issues faced by health care professionals. The new edition updates the information from both the legal and e...

Table of Contents:

• The doctor-patient relationship
• Consent, choice, and refusal : adults with capacity
• Treating adults who lack capacity
• Children and young people
• Confidentiality
• Health records
• Contraception, abortion, and birth
• Assisted reproduction
• Genetics
• Caring for patients at the end of life
• Euthanasia and physician assisted suicide
• Responsibilities after a patient's death
• Prescribing and administering medication
• Research and innovative treatment
• Emergency situations
• Doctors with dual obligations
• Providing treatment and care in detention settings
• Education and training
• Teamwork, referral, delegation, and shared care
• Public health dimensions of medical practice
• Reducing risk, clinical error, and poor performance.