Medical ethics today : the BMAs handbook of ethics and law /

This is your source for authoritative and comprehensive guidance from the British Medical Association (BMA) Medical Ethics Department covering both routine and highly contentious medico-legal issues faced by health care professionals. The new edition updates the information from both the legal and e...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: British Medical Association
Otros Autores: English, Veronica, Sommerville, Ann, Brannan, Sophie
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chichester, West Sussex : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.
Edición:3rd ed.
Temas:
Medical ethics > Great Britain > Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Ethics, Medical
Jurisprudence
Éthique médicale > Grande-Bretagne > Guides, manuels, etc.
Éthique médicale.
MEDICAL > Ethics.
Medical ethics
United Kingdom
Great Britain
Handbook
handbooks.
Handbooks and manuals
Handbooks and manuals.
Guides et manuels.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The doctor-patient relationship
  • Consent, choice, and refusal : adults with capacity
  • Treating adults who lack capacity
  • Children and young people
  • Confidentiality
  • Health records
  • Contraception, abortion, and birth
  • Assisted reproduction
  • Genetics
  • Caring for patients at the end of life
  • Euthanasia and physician assisted suicide
  • Responsibilities after a patient's death
  • Prescribing and administering medication
  • Research and innovative treatment
  • Emergency situations
  • Doctors with dual obligations
  • Providing treatment and care in detention settings
  • Education and training
  • Teamwork, referral, delegation, and shared care
  • Public health dimensions of medical practice
  • Reducing risk, clinical error, and poor performance.

Ejemplares similares