Resolving Ethical Dilemmas: A Guide for Clinicians

Every day clinicians encounter ethical dilemmas that have a direct impact on patient care. This timely fourth edition gives expert guidance in approaching a wide range of ethical dilemmas and developing an action plan even when competing points of view have equal merit.

Highlights of this fourth edition edition include:
* A new chapter on ethical issues in cross-cultural medicine
* New material addressing conscientious objection by physicians, with particular reference to reproductive health and caring for underserved populations
* Revised sections on disclosure of errors to patients, gifts to physicians from drug companies, involuntary psychiatric treatment, genomic medicine, and ethical issues during public health emergencies such as pandemics
* Updates on organ transplantation including increasing the donor pool and non-heart beating donors
* Updated references throughout
* A summary of key points at the end of each chapter
* Most chapters include real-life sample cases that the author walks through, discussing the salient issues and how to approach them.

• LWW Doody’s Core Title Collection 2012( Prod-11178)
• LWW Medical Book Collection 2010( Prod-5544)
• LWW Doody's Core Title Collection 2011( Prod-10037)
• LWW Complete Book Collection 2009( Prod-5997)

• Author/Editor: Lo, Bernard
• ISBN/ISSN: 9780781793797
• Specialty: Medical Law, Ethics & Other Humanities
• Language:English
• Edition: 4th
• Pages: 360
• Illustrations: 1
• Year: 2009