Medical Ethics - Soft Skills for Clinical Care Providers

This book provides a comprehensive exploration of medical ethics, focusing on the essential soft skills required for clinical care providers. It bridges the gap between philosophical principles and practical application, offering a clear and accessible guide to navigating ethical dilemmas in healthcare.
Readers will uncover key concepts such as autonomy, beneficence, and justice, alongside practical discussions on informed consent and biomedical research. The chapters explore into the philosophical underpinnings of ethics, examining moral theory and moral status, while emphasizing the importance of communication skills in clinical settings. The book also addresses critical issues like informed consent and the ethical considerations in biomedical research. By emphasizing communication skills, it highlights the importance of effective interaction between clinicians and patients, ensuring ethical practice is maintained in all aspects of care.
This book is a must-read for those seeking to enhance their understanding of ethical practice in medicine, offering insights from experienced practitioners and scholars. Ideal for healthcare professionals, medical students, and scholars of medical ethics, this book equips readers with the tools to apply ethical principles in real-world scenarios. Readers will gain valuable insights into the moral complexities of patient care. It invites readers to consider the ethical dimensions of their work and offers practical strategies for addressing complex moral dilemmas.

List of contents

1. Principles and values.- 2. Philosophical Background of medical ethics.- 3. Philosophy of medicine.- 4. Approach to medical ethics.- 5. Fundamental Principles of Medical Ethics.- 6. Conflicts between Principles.- 7. Morals and Virtues.- 8. Human rights.- 9. When Autonomy Undermines Equity.- 10. Justice.- 11. Health care rationing.- 12. Understanding medical Epistemology.- 13. Aristotle, Kant, JS Mill and Rawls.- 14. Patients s Rights.- 15. The Conflict between Autonomy and Beneficence.- 16. Moral and ethical guidance for medical students.- 17. Decision making.- 18. Ethics and decision making.- 19. Shared decision making.- 20. Medicine and the humanities.- 21. Professional responsibility.- 22. Patient centred care.- 23. Duties of the physician.- 24. The informed consent in surgery and medicine.- 25. Prevention of Ethical Violation.- 26. Special Issues in ethics.- 27. Dehumanisation in Medicine.- 28. How to deal with difficult patients.- 29. Difficult medical colleague.- 30. Doctors, Patients, and Lawyers.- 31. Ethics in human genomic medicine.- 32. Care givers and patients with drug dependence.- 33. Models of doctor-patient relationship.- 34, Breaking bad news.- 35. Artificial intelligence.

About the author

Prof Saleh Abbas MD FRACS FACS studied medicine at Baghdad University, graduating in 1987. He is currently consultant surgeon and A/ Prof in hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgery, at University Hospital Geelong and Deakin University, Australia. Trained as General Surgeon in Auckland, New Zealand (FRACS), where he also gained a doctoral degree (MD) before sub-specialising in hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgery in Sydney, Australia. He has published more than 30 research papers in peer reviewed journals such as the British Journal of Surgery and Cochrane library, in addition to presentations at international surgical conferences. He has supervised two master’s degrees in surgery, and is heavily engaged in training the next generation of surgeons as a supervisor of training, accredited by the Royal Australian college of Surgeons.

Summary

This book provides a comprehensive exploration of medical ethics, focusing on the essential soft skills required for clinical care providers. It bridges the gap between philosophical principles and practical application, offering a clear and accessible guide to navigating ethical dilemmas in healthcare.
Readers will uncover key concepts such as autonomy, beneficence, and justice, alongside practical discussions on informed consent and biomedical research. The chapters explore into the philosophical underpinnings of ethics, examining moral theory and moral status, while emphasizing the importance of communication skills in clinical settings. The book also addresses critical issues like informed consent and the ethical considerations in biomedical research. By emphasizing communication skills, it highlights the importance of effective interaction between clinicians and patients, ensuring ethical practice is maintained in all aspects of care.
This book is a must-read for those seeking to enhance their understanding of ethical practice in medicine, offering insights from experienced practitioners and scholars. Ideal for healthcare professionals, medical students, and scholars of medical ethics, this book equips readers with the tools to apply ethical principles in real-world scenarios. Readers will gain valuable insights into the moral complexities of patient care. It invites readers to consider the ethical dimensions of their work and offers practical strategies for addressing complex moral dilemmas.

Product details

• Authors: Saleh Abbas
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.08.2025
• EAN: 9789819691982
• ISBN: 978-981-9691-98-2
• No. of pages: 285
• Illustrations: XIX, 285 p. 1 illus. in color.
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Medizinethik, Standesregeln, Medizinische Forschung, justice, Gesundheitsfachberufe, Health Policy, health care, Medical Ethics, Biomedical Research, Clinical Skills, communication skills, Soft skills for clinicians, Philosophical principles for ethics