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This instant gold standard title is a major contribution to the field of clinical medical ethics and will be used widely for reference and teaching purposes for years to come. Throughout his career, Mark Siegler, MD, has written on topics ranging from the teaching of clinical medical ethics to end-of-life decision-making and the ethics of advances in technology. With more than 200 journal publications and 60 book chapters published in this area over the course of his illustrious career, Dr. Siegler has become the pre-eminent scholar and teacher in the field. Indeed his work has had a profound impact on a range of therapeutic areas, especially internal medicine, pediatrics, surgery, oncology, and medical education.

Having grown steadily in importance the last 30 years, clinical ethics examines the practical, everyday ethical issues that arise in encounters among patients, doctors, nurses, allied health workers, and health care institutions. The goal of clinical ethics is to improve patient care and patient outcomes, and almost every large hospital now has an ethics committee or ethics consultation service to help resolve clinical ethical problems; and almost every medical organization now has an ethics committee and code of ethics. Most significantly, clinical ethics discussions have become a part of the routine clinical discourse that occurs in outpatient and inpatient clinical settings across the country. This seminal collection of 46 landmark works by Dr. Siegler on the topic is organized around five themes of foundational scholarship: restoring and transforming the ethical basis of modern clinical medicine, the doctor-patient relationship, education and professionalism, end-of-life care, and clinical innovation. With introductory perspectives by a group of renowned scholars in medicine, Clinical Medical Ethics: Landmark Works of Mark Siegler, MD explains the field authoritatively and comprehensively and will be of invaluable assistance to all clinicians and scholars concerned with clinical ethics.

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ContentsPart I Restoring and Transforming the Ethical Basis of Modern Clinical Medicine1 An Introduction from Laura Weiss Roberts, M.D., M.A.2 A Perspective from Mark Siegler, M.D.3 A Perspective from Daniel P. Sulmasy, M.D., Ph.D.4 A Perspective from Dana Levinson, M.P.H., Holly J. Humphrey, M.D., and Kenneth S. Polonsky, M.D.5 A Perspective from Jordan J. Cohen, M.D.6 A Perspective from Peter A. Singer, M.D.Part II Landmark Works on Clinical Medical Ethics by Mark Siegler, M.D.7 Foundational Scholarship7.1 Clinical ethics and clinical medicine (1979)Mark Siegler7.2 Decision-making strategy for clinical ethical problems in medicine (1982)Mark Siegler7.3 An ethics consultation service in a teaching hospital. Utilization and evaluation (1988)John La Puma, Carol B. Stocking, Marc D. Silverstein, Andrea DiMartini, Mark Siegler7.4 Clinical medical ethics (1990)Mark Siegler, Edmund D. Pellegrino, Peter A. Singer7.5 Ethics committees and consultants (1990)Peter A. Singer, Edmund D. Pellegrino, Mark Siegler7.6 Future directions in clinical ethics (1991)Edmund D. Pellegrino, Mark Siegler, Peter A. Singer7.7 Clinical ethics (1991)Mark Siegler, Peter A. Singer7.8 Clinical ethics in the practice of medicine (1996)Peter A. Singer, Mark Siegler7.9 Five major themes in bioethics (1997)Lainie Friedman Ross, Mark Siegler7.10 The contributions of clinical ethics to patient care (1997)Mark Siegler8 The Doctor-Patient Relationship8.1 Searching for moral certainty in medicine: a proposal for a new model of the doctor-patient encounter (1981)