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Klappentext Surgical ethics is the application of ethics to issues specific to surgery. This volume provides a collection of clinical case studies representing a wide range of the ethical issues surgeons confront today. It is an excellent text for teaching surgical ethics to surgical residents and medical students and a fascinating read for practicing surgeons. It is intended to engage the reader into participating in evidence-based ethical conflicts. The authors escort us through 71 brief, realistic, and ethically complex problems, offering a series of five possible resolutions to each and guiding us through the relative benefits and weaknesses of the options until a best ethical choice is defended. The volume includes sections on Consent and Disclosure, Self-Regulation, Research and Innovation, Conflicts of Interest, Business Dealings, and End of Life Issues, each with a brief introduction by the authors. Zusammenfassung Surgical ethics is the application of ethics to issues specific to surgery. This volume provides a collection of clinical case studies representing a wide range of the ethical issues surgeons confront today. It is an excellent text for teaching surgical ethics to surgical residents and medical students and a fascinating read for practicing surgeons. It is intended to engage the reader into participating in evidence-based ethical conflicts. The authors escort us through 71 brief, realistic, and ethically complex problems, offering a series of five possible resolutions to each and guiding us through the relative benefits and weaknesses of the options until a best ethical choice is defended. The volume includes sections on Consent and Disclosure, Self-Regulation, Research and Innovation, Conflicts of Interest, Business Dealings, and End of Life Issues, each with a brief introduction by the authors. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Introduction: A Primer on Surgical Ethics 2: Informed Consent and Disclosure: a. Painted Into a Corner: Unexpected Complications in Treating a Jehovah's Witness b. A Patient Refuses Consent for Life-Saving Surgery c. Consent for an Intraoperative Video Recording 3: Professional Self-Regulation a. What to Tell Patients Harmed by Other Physicians b. Eye-Witness to Incompetent Surgery; c. Military Physician's Ethical Response to Evidence of Torture 4: Innovation and Research a. When Does Conventional Surgery Become Research?; b. A Surgeon's Obligation When Performing New Procedures; c. The Ethics of Innovative Approaches for Well-Established Procedures 5: Conflicts of Interest and Conflicts of Commitment a. Intentional Over-Treatment: The Unmentionable Conflict of Interest b. Patient Responsibilities, Family Responsibilities c. Non-Financial Conflicts of Interest 6: The Ethics of Surgery as a Surgery a. Ethics of Physicians' Income b. Ethics of Personal Advertising in Surgery c. Ethics of Institutional Marketing: The Role of Physicians 7: Medical Professionalism Challenges: Assaults from Within and Without a. Going Public with Amazing Cases: Fiat or Fiasco? b. Unprofessional Behavior that Disrupts: Crossing the Line c. My Brother's Keeper: Ethics of Uncompensated Care for Undocumented Immigrants 8: End-of-Life Issues a. Futility and Surgical Intervention b. Advanced Age, Dementia, and an Abdominal Aneurysm - Intervene? c. Complying with Advance Directives in the OR d. Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm in a Death Row Inmate e. Telling the Truth About Terminal Diseases f. Arsenic and Old Lace: End of Life Care in the Post-Operative g. Training on Newly Deceased Patients h. Withdrawal of Life-Sustaining Low-Burden Care i. Physician-Assisted Suicide: Has It Come of Age? ...
