Main description:

Ethics and Law for the Health Professions is a cross-disciplinary medico-legal book whose previouseditions have been widely used in the medical world. This new 3rd edition is fully revised with all ethics and law topics updated to reflect recent developments. New chapters include dealing specifically with children, health care and the environment, infectious diseases, public health, and ethics and chronic disease. All law sections have been extensively re-visited by Dr Cameron Stewart. Its special features are its focus on a clinically relevant approach, and its recognition that health care professionals are often confronted by legal issues and ethical issues at the same time. Health professionals have to satisfy both, and their legal advisers need to be aware of the dilemmas this can present. This book is careful to distinguish between ethics and law. Its chapters take account of all the health professions, and their differing responsibilities, and cover a very wide range of the issues they face.

Contents:

ContentsPreface Introduction 1 What is Ethics? 2 Ethical Theories and Concepts 3 Relativism and Pluralism 4 Introduction to Law5 Introduction to Principle-Based Ethics 6 Clinical Ethics and Ethical Decision-Making 7 Professionalism and Standards of Care 8 Standards of Care, Errors and Negligence9 The Student in the Health-Care Environment 10 Nursing 11 Truth-Telling (Veracity) 12 Confidentiality and Record-Keeping 13 Impairments of Decision-Making Capacity 14 Consent 15 Treatment and Non-Treatment Issues: The Limits of Medical Care 16 CPR and No-CPR Orders 17 Genetics 18 Sexuality and Reproduction 19 Abortion 20 Children 21 People with Mental Illness 22 Ethics and Chronic Disease 23 The Elderly 24 Post-Coma Unresponsiveness and Brain Death 25 Organ Donation and Transplantation 26 Euthanasia 27 Public Health 28 Infectious Diseases 29 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health 30 Resource Allocation and International Health 31 Biomedical Research 32 Health Care and the Environment 33 Complementary and Alternative Medicine 34 The Pharmaceutical Industry Index