Ethics and error in medicine / / edited by Fritz Allhoff and Sandra L. Borden

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910959296203321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York : , : Routledge, , 2019
• ISBN: 0-429-56108-3; 0-429-26611-1; 0-429-55661-6
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiii, 308 pages) : illustrations
• Collana: Routledge research in applied ethics ; ; 18
• Disciplina: 174.2
• Soggetti: Medical ethics; Medical errors - Moral and ethical aspects; Ethics, Medical; Medical Errors - ethics
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: Medicine, Mistakes, and Moral Evaluation -- Part I Questions of Justice -- 2 Medical Error and Moral Luck -- 3 Toward a Restorative Just-Culture Approach to Medical Error -- 4 Rehabilitating Blame -- Part II Communication and Risk -- 5 A Communication-Based Approach to Safeguarding Against Medical Errors: The Case of Palliative Care -- 6 Communicating About Technical Failures in Assisted Reproductive Technology -- 7 Respecting Patient Autonomy in Radiation Oncology and Beyond -- Part III Vulnerable Populations -- 8 Medical Overtesting and Racial Distrust -- 9 The Epistemology of Medical Error in an Intersectional World -- 10 The Harm of Ableism: Medical Error and Epistemic Injustice -- 11 Error and Determinations of Decision-Making Capacity in Mentally Ill Patients -- Part IV Learning From Error -- 12 Medical Error as a Collaborative Learning Tool -- 13 Inference to the Best Explanation and Avoiding Diagnostic Error -- 14 Psychopathy Treatment and the Stigma of Yesterday's Research -- 15 Reducing Medical Errors Through Simulation: An Ethical Alternative for ; Training Medical Practitioners -- List of Contributors -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: "This book is a collection of original, interdisciplinary essays on the topic of medical error. Given the complexities of understanding, preventing, and responding to medical error in ethically responsible ways, the scope of the book is fairly broad. The contributors include top scholars and practitioners working in bioethics, communication, law, medicine and philosophy. Their contributions examine preventable causes of medical error, disproportionate impacts of errors on vulnerable populations, disclosure and apology after discovering medical errors, and ethical issues arising in specific medical contexts, such as radiation oncology, psychopathy, and palliative care. They also offer practical recommendations for respecting autonomy, distributing burdens and benefits justly, and minimizing injury to patients and other stakeholders. Ethics and Error in Medicine will be of interest to a wide range of researchers, students, and practitioners in bioethics, philosophy, communication studies, law, and medicine who are interested in the ethics of medical error"--