Bøger i Clinical Medical Ethics series serien

Develops an efficient and flexible model of informed consent that accommodates both clinical realities and legal and ethical imperatives.

Charts the ancient Greek and Roman foundations of Western medical ethics. Surveying 1500 years of pre-Christian medical moral history, this book applies insights from ancient medical ethics to developments in contemporary medicine such as advance directives, gene therapy, physician-assisted suicide, abortion, and surrogate motherhood.

Free and informed consent is one of the most widespread and morally important practices of modern health care; competence to consent is its cornerstone. This book provides an introduction to the key practical, philosophical, and moral issues involved in competence to consent.

Advance directives - such as living wills and health care proxies - are documents intended to declare and preserve the health care choices of patients if they become unable to make their own decisions. This book provides a comprehensive overview of advance directives and clear, practical directions for writing and interpreting them.

Provides a comprehensive exploration of bioethical issues outside of the dominant American and western European model. Using the Philippines as a case study, this title addresses how a developing country's economy, religion, and culture affect the bioethical landscape for doctors, patients, families, and the society as a whole.

The Patient Self-Determination Act of 1990 required medical facilities to provide patients with written notification of their right to refuse or consent to medical treatment. This title explains the social, legal, and ethical background to the Act by focusing on well-known cases such as those of Karen Quinlan and Nancy Cruzan.