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Bioethics: a clinical guide for medical students
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Publisher
W.W. Norton
Publication Date
©1994
Language
English
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Patient-physician relationship
PPR
Practice context
Hospital practice
Derivative authority
Supervision and patient privacy
Office practice
Physician selection
Defining medicine
Role of the physician: some models
Ethical theories and principles
Ethical theories
Utilitarianism
Deontology
Virtue
Casuistry
Ethical principles
Beneficence vs. respect for autonomy
Fidelity
Justice
Rules from the principles
Informed consent
Competent patients
Incompetent patients
Consent process
Truth telling
Confidentiality
Interactional issues
Skills
Patient interviews
Forms of communication
Response to patient anger
Competence
Competence of physicians
Competence of students
Sexuality
Sexual abuse of patients
Anxiety affecting patient care
Interventions
Medical technology in practice
Prescribing drugs
Invasive procedures
Consultations and second opinions
Emergency care
Hospital care
Dying, death and in-between
Definitions, including PVS
Communication
Care issues
Resuscitation.
(cont) Stopping treatment
Advance directives
Pregnancy: prevention and termination
Contraception
Abortion
Use of limited resources
Principle of justice
Review of theories
Microallocation
Macroallocation
Costs
Outcomes of care
Possibilities for reform
Student-specific issues
Stress
Conflicts of interest
Abuse of students
Honesty
Health concerns
Drugs
Infections
Emotional problems
Debt
Moral versus legal
Definitions
Student identity and concerns
Court interventions
Professional liability
Medical injury
Causes
Malpractice
Prevention of lawsuits
Obligations to treat
Ethical issues
Difficult patients
Hazardously infectious diseases
Ethics and infectious diseases
Personal and patient risk
Reduction of risk
Care of the poor
Incidence
Occupational risk
Low-pay care
Advocacy
Individual efforts.
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9780393710212
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