Complex Ethics Consultations: Cases that Haunt Us
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| Rating | : | 4.78 (655 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0521697158 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 274 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-03-23 |
| Language | : | English |
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For most complex conundrums of clinical ethics, there is no right answer. The editors even include a useful guide in which cases are organized by theme and suggestions for further study are offered. Instead, the good consultant helps practitioners and patients to understand what is at stake if they choose one sort of resolution over another. It will also be helpful to others who are interested in understanding the evolving practice of ethics consultation." --New England Journal of Medicine . These features, along with the quality of the case presentations and the personal nature of the reflections, make the book a useful tool for training members of hos
Good Collection of Hard Ethics Consultations JessB I should start with a caveat; I'm not an ethicist, but I am a nurse (I work in an ICU in a medium sized metropolitan hospital) and see a lot of these issues in my day to day work. The cases in this book are what one would consider basic, run-of-the-mill ethics consults, but rather more complicated "haunting" cases. The authors are very sensitive and careful in describing the cases, and thoughtful in looking back to reflect on what
. She is Chief of the Ethics Consultation Service and provides organizational ethics consultation at University of Washington Medical Center, USA. Paul J. Ford is Associate Staff, Bioethics and Neurology, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation and Assistant Professor, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA.Denise M. Dudzinski is Assistant Professor in the Department of Medical Histo
They struggle to facilitate resolutions founded on good reasoning embedded in compassionate care. The cases inform any reader who has a keen interest in the choices made in real-life medical dilemmas as well as the emotional cost to those who work to improve the situations. On a more advanced level, this book should be read by ethics committee members who participate in ethics consultations, individual ethics consultants, clinicians who seek education about complex clinical ethics cases, and bioethics students.. Clinical ethicists encounter the most emotionally eviscerating medical cases possible. 28 richly detailed cases explore the ethical reasoning, professional issues, and the emotional aspects of these impossibly difficult consultations. The cases are grouped together by theme to aid teaching, discussion and professional growth. This book fills the considerable gap between current texts and the