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The Trusted Doctor rejects the reigning view that medical ethics is nothing more than the application of everyday ethics to dilemmas that arise in today's medical practice. Instead, it presents a new theory of medical ethics that is actually in line with the codes of ethics and professional oaths proclaimed by physicians around the world.
List of contents
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Why a New Approach to Medical Ethics Is Needed
- Chapter 2: The Distinctive Ethics of Medicine
- Chapter 3: Medicine's Core Responsibilities
- Chapter 4: The Commitment to Science
- Chapter 5: Behavior toward Patients
- Chapter 6: Autonomy and Trust
- Chapter 7: The Commitment to Truth
- Chapter 8: Physicians' Commitments to Fellow Professionals
- Chapter 9: The Commitment to Justice
- Chapter 10: Additional Professional Virtues
- Chapter 11: Resolving Ethical Dilemmas
- Chapter 12: Why the Best Interest Standard Is Not Good
- Chapter 13: Professional Responsibility and Claims of Conscientious Objection
- Chapter 14: Concluding Thoughts
- Appendix
About the author
Rosamond Rhodes, Ph.D., is Professor of Medical Education and Director of Bioethics Education at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Professor of Philosophy at The Graduate Center, CUNY, and Professor of Bioethics and Associate Director of the Clarkson-Mount Sinai Bioethics Program. She writes on a broad array of issues in bioethics and has published more than 200 papers and chapters. She is co-editor of The Human Microbiome: Ethical, Legal and Social Concerns (Oxford University Press, 2013), The Blackwell Guide to Medical Ethics (Blackwell, 2007), Medicine and Social Justice: Essays on the Distribution of Health Care (Oxford University Press, first edition 2002; second edition 2012), and Physician Assisted Suicide: Expanding the Debate (Routledge, 1998).
Summary
The Trusted Doctor rejects the reigning view that medical ethics is nothing more than the application of everyday ethics to dilemmas that arise in today's medical practice. Instead, it presents a new theory of medical ethics that is actually in line with the codes of ethics and professional oaths proclaimed by physicians around the world.
