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A practical and thought provoking introduction to the most important ethical issues in medicine today. Over 700 entries, from short essays to brief definitions of key terms and concepts, have been contributed by leading clinicians and medical ethicists.
New Dictionary of Medical Ethics
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Walton offers a comprehensive, flexible model for physician-patient decision making, the first such tool designed to be applied at the level of each particular case. Based on Aristotelian “practical reasoning,” it develops a method of reasonable dialogue, a question- and-answer process of interaction leading to informed consent on the part of the patient, and to a decision–mutually arrived at–reflecting both high medical standards and the patient’s felt needs. After setting forth his model, he applies it to three vital ethical issues: acts of omission, the cessation of treatment, and possible side effects of treatments. In the final chapter, Walton shows how his method functions in light of the real-life complexities of the clinical encounter and how it bears on ethical questions concerning health-care policy, attitudes toward treatment and toward the medical profession, reasonableness of expectations, and the setting of realistic goals of treatment.
Physician-Patient Decision-Making: A Study in Medical Ethics
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“The volume deserves our serious attention. The authors have provided us an invaluable primer about the HGP and its implications for the future of American health care.” — Jurimetrics
“This book does make a real contribution… in explaining why the genetics revolution holds so much promise and why it is so difficult to bring that promise to fruition.” — The Journal of Legal Medicine
“… marked by a forward-looking, analytically and empirically grounded thematic coherence. The editors’ carefully crafted template and contributions successfully focus and organize the material.” — Annals of Internal Medicine
“Excellent” — Canadian Medical Association Journal
“The editors have done a very good job integrating the contents into a very useful and readable information source.” — Choice
“… this highly focused book is a well-written, thoughtful, and insightful consideration of the HGP and is valuable reading for anyone concerned with the future of our country’s medical infrastructure.” — Science Books & Films (**Highly recommended)
“A distinguished group of scientists, lawyers, and scholars have written a coherent, readable account of the legal, medical, ethical, and policy issues many (if not all) of us will be wrestling with on both a personal and a public level, as a result of current genetic research.” — Library Journal
“Each of the contributors is a distinguished authority on the topic. Ethicists, especially, will find well-developed presentation of issues, with exposition of the differing ethical assumptions in tension in the society debate.” — Doody’s Health Sciences Book Review Home Page
How will the science of gene mapping and gene manipulation affect health care? Leading scholars explore the clinical, ethical, legal, and policy implications of the Human Genome Project for the forms of health care, who delivers it, who receives it, and who pays for it.
The Human Genome Project and the Future of Health Care
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This collection of essays, commissioned by the President’s Council on Bioethics, explores a fundamental concept crucial to today’s discourse in law and ethics in general and in bioethics in particular. Since its formation in 2001, the council has frequently used the term ‘human dignity’ in its discussions and reports. In this volume scholars from the fields of philosophy, medicine and medical ethics, law, political science, and public policy address the issue of what the concept of ‘human dignity’ entails and its proper role in bioethical controversies. “Human Dignity and Bioethics” is an attempt to clarify a controversial concept, one that is a critical component in the decisions of policymakers.
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The Blackwell Guide to Medical Ethics is a guide to the complex literature written on the increasingly dense topic of ethics in relation to the new technologies of medicine.
The Blackwell Guide to Medical Ethics
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Published by the Christian Medical and dental Associations to help Christian medical and dental students as they begin to struggle with what is right and wrong in healthcare.
Medical Ethics: A Primer For Students – A Small Group Study for Medical and Dental Students
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The American Medical Association’s Code of Medical Ethics is the most comprehensive ethics guide for physicians. The definitive authority on medical professionalism, the Code was first developed in 1847 and undergoes regular revisions.
This 2006 – 2007 edition contains 200 ethical opinions of the AMA’s Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs, along with the AMA’s nine Principles of Medical Ethics and several opinions on topics including physician health and wellness, physician obligation in disaster preparedness and response, direct-to-consumer diagnostic imaging tests, and resident physicians’ involvement in patient care. New guidance is given on previous topics such as transplantation of organs from living donors, racial and ethnic health care disparities, and medical testimony.
These opinions, and the principles upon which they are founded, have been cited in many of the important medico-legal decisions of our time including Cruzan and Roe v. Wade. References to case law and journal articles are annotated for research convenience throughout this edition. The Code of Medical Ethics has set the standard for practicing medicine ethically for more than 159 years and is the essential companion for physicians and other medical professionals, attorneys, health care administrators, and patients who contend with the challenging issues and choices inherent in modern medicine.
Code of Medical Ethics, 2006-2007: Current Opinions With Annotations
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Autonomy is a vital principle in medical law and ethics. It occupies a prominent place in all medico-legal and ethical debate. But there is a dangerous presumption that it should have the only vote, or at least the casting vote. This book is an assault on that presumption, and an audit of autonomy’s extraordinary status. This book surveys the main issues in medical law, noting in relation to each issue the power wielded by autonomy, asking whether that power can be justified, and suggesting how other principles can and should contribute to the law. It concludes that autonomy’s status cannot be intellectually or ethically justified, and that positive discrimination in favour of the other balancing principles is urgently needed in order to avoid some sinister results. ‘This book is a sustained attack on the hegemony of the idea of autonomy in medical ethics and law. Charles Foster is no respecter of authority, whether of university professors or of law Lords. He grabs his readers by their lapels and shakes sense into them through a combination of no-nonsense rhetoric and subtle argument that is difficult to resist.’ Tony Hope, Professor of Medical Ethics, Oxford University ‘This book is unlikely to be in pristine state by the time you have finished reading it. Whether that is because you have thrown it in the air in celebration or thrown it across the room in frustration will depend on your perspective. But this book cannot leave you cold. It is a powerful polemic on the dominance of autonomy in medical law, which demands a reaction. Charles Foster sets out a powerful case that academic medical lawyers have elevated autonomy to a status it does not deserve in either ethical or legal terms. In a highly engaging, accessible account, he challenges many of the views which have become orthodox within the academic community. This will be a book which demands and will attract considerable debate.’ Jonathan Herring, Exeter College, Oxford University ‘This is a learned, lively and thought-provoking discussion of problems central to the courts’ approach to ethical issues in medical law. What principles are involved? More significantly, which really underlie and inform the process of seeking justice in difficult cases? Charles Foster persuasively argues, and demonstrates, that respect for autonomy is but one of a number of ethical principles which interact and may conflict. He also addresses the sensitive issue of the extent to which thoughts and factors which go to influence legal decisions may not appear in the judgments.’ Adrian Whitfield QC. ‘Introducing the Jake La Motta of medical ethics. Foster is an academic street-fighter who has bloodied his hands in the court room. He provides a stinging, relentless, ground attack on the Goliath of medical ethics: the central place of autonomy in liberal medical ethics. This is now the first port of call for those who feel that medical ethics has become autonomized.’ Julian Savulescu, Uehiro Chair in Practical Ethics, University of Oxford. “This important book offers a robust challenge to anyone, whether lawyer or ‘ethicist’, who sees respect for autonomy as the only game in town. It argues eloquently and effectively that, on the one hand, despite the reverence paid to it by judges, in practice the law, even in the context of consent, weaves together a number of moral threads of which autonomy is merely one, in the pursuit of a good decision. It argues on the other hand, that were the day-to-day practice of law to be guided primarily by respect for autonomy, this would be wrong. Foster concludes that whilst, ‘any society that does not have laws robustly protecting autonomy is an unsafe and unhappy one’, so too would be a society in which too much emphasis was placed on respect for autonomy at the expense of other important moral principles. This is essential reading for anyone interested in the role of autonomy and indeed of medical ethics, in the law.” Michael Parker, Professor of Bioethics, University of Oxford
Choosing Life, Choosing Death: The Tyranny of Autonomy in Medical Ethics and Law
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This book on medical ethics, written for the interested man-in-the-street, reviews the issues involved in most of the principal medical-ethical dilemmas that face our society from a multi-disciplinary point of view.
Good Care, Painful Choices: Medical Ethics for Ordinary People, Third Edition
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Philosophical Medical Ethics Raanan Gillon BA (Philosophy) MB, BS, MRCP (UK) Director, Imperial College Health Service Editor, Journal of Medical Ethics Deputy Director, Institute of Medical Ethics, London Senior Fellow, Centre for Law and Medical Ethics, King’s College, University of London This book is intended for all who see a need for critical thinking about the moral issues which arise in medical practice. Equally the book is aimed at those—including many doctors, nurses and other health workers—who acknowledge no such requirement, either because they are confident of knowing all they need to know, because they are content to rely on received wisdom, or because they think such issues are irrelevant in practice. Each group will find its views challenged in this book. The author believes that ‘conscience’, ‘integrity’ and ‘good character’ are not enough, and that whatever our moral stance it is necessary to consider the relevance of four moral principles—respect for autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence, and justice—with each ethical problem we encounter. In doing this, we are unlikely to omit any relevant moral concerns. The book does not attempt to provide answers to specific medicomoral problems, but it does seek to bring more order, consistency and understanding to moral judgements in health care, by reference to a potentially widely acceptable framework for working out the answers. Also available from Wiley on this subject: Health: The Foundations for Achievement David Seedhouse September 1986