Each chapter contains case examples drawn from personal experience or from the media. This edition also includes cartoons to highlight cutting edge and topical issues.
Prima facie duties W D Ross (Dancy 1991, Ross 1930) developed a duty-based approach to ethics that has influenced the 'four-principle' approach to medical ethics (see p. 15). Ross believed that, although the consequences of one's ...
They believed least of all in using the knife and in cauterizing , " Aristoxenus is quoted as saying 14 The second is from Plato's Timaeus.15 Adopting Taylor's view that the Timaeus ' medical theories are essentially of Pythagorean ...
In this volume, black-letter Rules of Professional Conduct are followed by numbered Comments that explain each Rule's purpose and provide suggestions for its practical application.
The editors have incurred many debts in preparing this book, and both etiquette and ethics would be contravened if they were not discharged here.
3 Communication Introduction Listening Use of questions in communicating Methods of communication Barriers to communication Confidentiality 77 77 78 79 80 88 90 4 Law, ethics and medicine Introduction History of ethics and etiquette ...
As Wujastyk shows, these works testify to an elaborate system of medical ethics and etiquette. Physicians looked to the ayurvedic treatises for a guide to professional conduct.
Current Legal Issues, like its sister volume Current Legal Problems, is based upon an annual colloquium held at University College London. Each year, leading scholars from around the world gather...
Medical Law and Ethics is a feature-rich introduction to medical law and ethics, discussing key principles, cases, and statutes.
The book is an addition to the library of anyone who is concerned about the interaction between modern medicine and Jewish law in the twenty-first century."--BOOK JACKET.