Almost every neurologist encounters ethical issues daily. This exemplary ethics text meets the needs of students, residents, fellows, and practicing neurologists who want an accessible case-based text for learning, and it meets the needs of directors of medical student clerkships and residency programs in neurology who want an accessible case-based text for teaching. The book’s case-based approach places key ethical principles into a practical, real-world context to aid in decision-making. Each chapter includes an outstanding array of learning features includes Learning Objectives, Clinical Vignettes, Questions to guide self-study and group discussions, Key Points, Key Words, Suggestions for Further Reading, and more. Clinical Pragmatism model helps readers analyze ethical issues in a clinical context. Practical Ethics in Clinical Neurology is a companion to the most highly respected ethics text in neurology and neurosurgery, Bernat's Ethical Issues in Neurology, 3rd edition.
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This chapter explores how the disciplines of law and ethics inform and intersect with each other, and how resulting law impacts the everyday work of the clinical neurologist.
This important textbook on ethics in clinical neurology covers the ethical dilemmas that are becoming more and more prevalent in the neurologist's everyday practice. Among the patients a neurologist sees...
The Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences (CIOMS), an organization put together by the World Health Organization and UNESCO, in 1993 issued its International Ethical Guidelines ...
This book is written for all clinicians in the neurosciences specialties who need to examine and re-examine the ethical and legal implications of advances in clinical neurosciences.
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This book explores relevant questions within this multi-faceted and rapidly growing field, and will help to define and foster scholarship within the intersection of neuroethics and clinical neuroscience.
Goes beyond theory to offer a solid decision-making strategy applicable to real-world practice Numerous clinical case examples link principles to everyday practice--many new to this edition Practical coverage of important legal issues ...
Practical Ethics for Students, Interns, and Residents: A Short Reference Manual
Ethics in Neurosurgical Practice is a comprehensive and practical guide for managing the treatment of patients with debilitating neurosurgical conditions.