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Second Edition
Edited By
Heather Draper, BA, MA, PhD, Senior Lecturer in Biomedical Ethics, The Centre for Biomedical Ethics, University of Birmingham
Wendy Scott, MBChB, FRCA, DRCOG, Consultant Anaesthetist, Derby City General Hospital, Derby, UK
Description
Good clinical practice inevitably raises both ethical and legal issues and demands an understanding of both. Different environments produce
different problems in practice, and similarly, different patients raise different considerations. All these situations demand the clinician
to make decisions that balance both the clinical and ethical considerations.
Contents
1. Introduction
Heather Draper
2. Consent and Adult Patients in Anaesthetics and Intensive Care
Alan Aitkenhead
3.
Fitness to Practice, Self-regulation and Clinical Governance in Anaesthesia
David Hatch
4. Confidentiality, Anaesthetics
and Intensive Care
Catherine Hale
5. Cultural Relativism, Tolerance and Respect for Autonomy
Andrew Fagan
6.
Ethical and Legal Issues Affecting the Treatment of Children
Nicholas Pace
7. Clinical Research
Mike Harmer
8.
Research Ethics
Richard Nicholson
9. Evidence Based Medicine and Anaesthesia
Lucy Frith
10. Maternal Foetal
Conflicts and the Anaesthetists' Role
Wendy Scott, Heather Draper
11. Resource Allocation in Critical Care
Richard
Wenstone, June Jones
12. Ethical Management in Intensive Care
June Jones
13. Withdrawing and Withholding Life
Sustaining Therapy and Euthanasia
Heather Draper
14. Brain Death and the Cadaveric Organ Donor
David Lamb
15.
The Acceptability of Routine Testing for Blood Borne Communicable Diseases
Rebecca Bennett
16. Teaching and Assessing
Medical Ethics
Lisa Schwartz
17. Ethical Issues in Private Practice
Chris Bareham, Tom Sorrell
| Bibliographic details |
Paperback, 272 pages, publication date: JUL-2003
ISBN-13: 978-0-7506-5353-4
ISBN-10: 0-7506-5353-1
Imprint: BUTTERWORTH HEINEMANN
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Last update: 30 Nov 2009
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