Resolving Ethical Dilemmas: A Guide for Clinicians

By Bernard Lo

Book Overview

This timely Third Edition will keep clinicians up to date on a wide range of ethical dilemmas and new ways of thinking about them. Important new material addresses federal privacy regulations, disclosure of medical errors, limits on residents' working hours, patient compliance with public health directives, genetic testing, gifts from drug companies, and more. Also included are revised sections on decision-making near the end of life and an update on organ transplantation, including living donations and financial incentives for donation. This edition also has more real-life cases to illustrate ethical dilemmas and challenge readers' critical thinking skills.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0683051385
• ISBN13: 9780683051384
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Williams & Wilkins
• Length: 373 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.3" x 0.8" x 7.3"

Customer Reviews

Resolving Ethical Dilemmas

Well written, small print, but chapters are short! Each concept is broken down and examples provide real world application of the concepts.