General practice and ethics : uncertainty and responsibility / edited by Christopher Dowrick and Lucy Frith.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dowrick, Christopher, 1951-

Frith, Lucy.

Series:

Professional ethics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Physicians (General practice)--Professional ethics.

Physicians (General practice).

Primary care (Medicine)--Moral and ethical aspects.

Primary care (Medicine).

Evidence-based medicine--Moral and ethical aspects.

Evidence-based medicine.

Medical ethics.

Ethics, Medical.

Family Practice.

Physician-Patient Relations.

Professional ethics.

Medical Subjects:

Ethics, Medical.

Family Practice.

Physician-Patient Relations.

Physical Description:

x, 196 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.

Summary:

"General Practice and Ethics" explores the ethical issues faced by general physicans in their everyday practice, addressing two central themes: the uncertainty of outcomes and effectiveness in general practice and the changing pattern of general practitioners' responsibilities.

Contents:

1 Uncertainty and responsibility / Christopher Dowrick 13

2 Evidence-based medicine and general practice / Lucy Frith 29

3 Ethico-legal dilemmas within general practice: moral indeterminacy and abstract morality / Len Doyal 45

4 The general practitioner and confidentiality / Jean McHale 62

5 Patient-centredness: a history / Carl May, Nicola Mead 76

6 Ethics and postmodernity / Sam Smith 91

7 The ethics of prescribing / Colin Bradley 109

8 Depression in general practice / Roger Higgs 134

9 Advance directives / Angus Dawson 150

10 The ethics of research in general practice / Roger Jones 172.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0415164982

0415164990

OCLC:

39627614