Medical Ethics Today
The BMA's Handbook of Ethics and Law
3rd Edition
Published on 23. February 2012
Book
Hardback
956 pages
978-1-4443-3708-2 (ISBN)
Description
This is your source for authoritative and comprehensive guidance from the British Medical Association (BMA) Medical Ethics Department covering both routine and highly contentious medico-legal issues faced by health care professionals. The new edition updates the information from both the legal and ethical perspectives and reflects developments surrounding The Mental Capacity Act, Human Tissue Act, and revision of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act.
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Product info
gebunden
Edition
3. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
John Wiley & Sons Inc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 55 mm
Weight
1581 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4443-3708-2 (9781444337082)
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Person
British Medical Association Medical Ethics Department, London, UK
Content
List of statues and regulations.
List of cases.
Where to find legal cases online.
Medical Ethics Committee.
Acknowledgements.
Preface to the third edition.
Introduction: Bridging the gap between theory and practice: the BMA's approach to medical ethics.
1: The doctor-patient relationship.
2: Consent, choice and refusal: adults with capacity.
3: Treating adults who lack capacity.
4: Children and young people.
5: Confidentiality.
6: Health records.
7: Contraception, abortion, and birth.
8: Assisted reproduction.
9: Genetics.
10: Caring for patients at the end of life.
11: Euthanasia and physician assisted suicide.
12: Responsibilities after a patient's death.
13: Prescribing and administering medication.
Chapter 14: Research and innovative treatment.
15: Emergency situations.
16: Doctors with dual obligations.
17: Providing treatment and care in detention settings.
18: Education and training.
19: Teamwork, referral, delegation and shared care.
20: Public health dimensions of medical practice.
21: Reducing risk, clinical error, and poor performance.
AppendixA: Hippocratic Oath.
Appendix B: Declaration of Geneva.
Appendix C: Declaration of a new doctor, as devised by Imperial College School of Medicine graduating year of 2001.
Index.