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Record Nr.

UNINA9910956254403321

Titolo

Surgical ethics / / edited by Laurence B. McCullough, James W. Jones, Baruch A. Brody

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; , : Oxford University Press, , 2023

ISBN

0-19-770877-3

1-280-52870-2

9786610528707

0-19-974879-9

1-4294-0429-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xix, 396 pages)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

174/.2

Soggetti

Surgeons - Professional ethics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 1998.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Contributors""; ""1. Principles and Practice of Surgical Ethics""; ""2. Informed Consent: Autonomous Decision Making of the Surgical Patient""; ""3. Confidentiality in Surgical Practice""; ""4. Advance Directives and the Determination of Death""; ""5. Emergency Patients: Serious Moral Choices, with Limited Time, Information, and Patient Participation""; ""6. Acute, High-Risk Patients: The Case of Transplantation""; ""7. Acute yet Non-Emergent Patients""; ""8. Elective Patients""; ""9. Poor Surgical Risk Patients""; ""10. Care of Dying Patients""

""11. Patients Who Are Family Members, Friends, Colleagues, Family Members of Colleagues"" ""12. Research and Innovation in Surgery""; ""13. Preventing and Managing Unwarranted Biases against Patients""; ""14. Self-Regulation of Surgical Practice and Research""; ""15. Surgery and Other Medical Specialties""; ""16. Obligations of Surgeons to Non-Physician Team Members and Trainees""; ""17. Financial Relationships with Patients""; ""18. Understanding, Assessing, and Managing Conflicts of Interest""; ""19. Relationships with Payers and Institutions that Manage and Deliver Patient Services""; ""Index""

Sommario/riassunto

Aimed at surgeons & bioethicists, Surgical Ethics covers the surgeon-



patient relationship, the range of surgical patients, surgical education and research, and surgery and managed care, dealing directly with everyday concerns.