Giving voice to values as a professional physician : an introduction to medical ethics / Ira Bedzow.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bedzow, Ira, author.

Contributor:

Dr. William McDowell Mastin Fund.

Taylor & Francis eBooks.

Series:

Giving voice to values on business ethics and corporate social responsibility collection

Giving voice to values

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical ethics.

Medicine.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 116 pages.)

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

1 Ethics, professionalism, and Giving Voice to Values p. 1

The uniqueness of professionalism education p. 6

Professionalism as a value not a competency p. 8

Giving Voice to Values p. 12

Starting assumptions to give voice to one's values p. 16

2 Making moral decisions p. 22

The gut reaction p. 26

Moral awareness: bias check p. 29

Conformity bias p. 30

Obedience to authority p. 32

Framing p. 34

Recognizing and prioritizing facts and values p. 35

The patient-physician relationship p. 36

Patient autonomy p. 37

Physicians' professional goals p. 37

Physician authority and professional integrity p. 37

One note on values p. 39

Ethical frameworks p. 39

Deontological (Kantian) ethics p. 41

Consequentialist (utilitarian) ethics p. 43

Value(s) comparison between deontology and consequentialism p. 45

Principlism or the Four Principles approach p. 47

3 Acting on moral decisions p. 50

Moral (inaction): Rationalizations check p. 50

Personal-professional profiles p. 51

Considering other stakeholders p. 53

Organizational and systems-based levers p. 54

Creating scripts p. 55

Case 1 Confronting a superior p. 57

Case 2 HIV mothers and breastfeeding their newborns p. 62

Case 3 Reporting a colleague p. 68

Case 4 Talking to family members about a patient's medical information p. 73

Case 5 Speaking to a colleague about a patient's complaints p. 76

Case 6 Complementary and alternative medicine p. 82

Case 7 Talking to patients about assisted reproductive technologies p. 87

Case 8 Withdrawing treatment and right to die p. 91

Case 9 Determination of death p. 95

Intended audience and how to use this book p. 103

Example action plan and script for Case 1 p. 112.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Dr. William McDowell Mastin Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Bedzow, Ira. Giving voice to values as a professional physician.

ISBN:

9780429425400

0429425406

Publisher Number:

99979940017

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.