Clinical Ethics: A Practical Approach to Ethical Decisions in Clinical Medicine, Sixth Edition

A Doody's Core Title! "The authors articulate a systematic method of case analysis for facing challenges in clinical ethics built upon what they refer to as the 'four topics approach,' neatly summarized on a single-page pullout reference card, providing easy portability of the method to the bedside... the authors provide numerous realistic case examples throughout, which help illustrate a number of the key concepts in the text ... The authors have admirably updated their text with newer ethical concerns."--Journal of the American Medical AssociationClinical Ethics introduces the "four-topics" method of approaching ethical problems (i.e., medical indications, patient preferences, quality of life, and contextual features) . Each of the four chapters represents one of the topics. In each chapter, the authors discuss cases and provide comments and recommendations. The four-topics method is an organizational process by which clinicians can begin to understand the complexities involved in ethical cases and can proceed to find a solution for each case.