Should a brain-dead woman be artificially maintained for the sake of her fetus? Does a
physician have the right to administer a life-saving transfusion despite the patient's religious …

Clinical medical ethics provides a special perspective on medical practice and health care.
The goal of clinical ethics is to improve the quality of patient care by identifying, analyzing …

The Textbook of Healthcare Ethics, Second Edition is written with practising physicians,
medical students and residents, nurses, philosophers, and other healthcare workers in mind …

Life is full of tough decisions that must be made ethically and under the pressures of time.
This book places readers in realistic situation where they experience the difficulties of …

General practice provides the first point of contact to medical care for patients across the
world. GPs have obligations to patients in their care, to the government for responsible use …

This clear, accessible text/reference explores the full range of contemporary issues in health
care ethics from a practical wisdom approach. The authors present the fundamental …

Objectives: Summarize the common ethical principles that apply to patient care. Outline the
history of ethical principles applied to patient care. Review the meaning of the sanctity of …

During the 1970s and 1980s, the new disciplines of biomedical ethics and clinical ethics
emphasized the development of medical school teaching programs, the creation of ethics …

In this paper, I provide a brief sketch of the purposes that medical ethics serves and what
makes for good medical ethics. Medical ethics can guide clinical practice and biomedical …

When physicians in training enter their clinical years and first begin to become involved in
clinical decision making, they soon find that more than the technical data they had so …