The ethics of surgical practice : cases, dilemmas, and resolutions / James W. Jones, Laurence B. McCullough, Bruce W. Richman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jones, James W. (James Wilson), 1941- author.

McCullough, Laurence B., author.

Richman, Bruce W., author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Surgeons--Professional ethics--Case studies.

Surgeons.

General Surgery--ethics--Case Reports.

Biomedical Research--ethics--Case Reports.

Ethics, Medical--Case Reports.

Patient Rights--ethics--Case Reports.

Medical Subjects:

General Surgery--ethics--Case Reports.

Biomedical Research--ethics--Case Reports.

Ethics, Medical--Case Reports.

Patient Rights--ethics--Case Reports.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (357 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Surgical ethics is the application of ethics to issues specific to surgery. This volume provides a collection of clinical case studies representing a wide range of the ethical issues surgeons confront today.

Contents:

Contents; 1 Introduction: A Primer on Surgical Ethics; 2 Informed Consent and Disclosure; Case 1 Painted Into a Corner: Unexpected Complications in Treating a Jehovah's Witness; Case 2 A Patient Refuses Consent for Life-Saving Surgery; Case 3 Consent for an Intraoperative Video Recording; Case 4 Disclosure of Intraoperative Error; Case 5 The Public's Right to Know? Surgical Treatment of Public Figures; Case 6 Religiously Based Emergency Treatment Refusal; Case 7 Consent for Residents to Perform Surgery; Case 8 The Shifting Sands of Senility: Canceled Consent

Case 9 A Surgeon's Obligation to a Jehovah's Witness ChildCase 10 Are Ethics Practical When Externals Impact Your Clinical Judgment?; 3 Professional Self-Regulation; Case 11 What To Tell Patients Harmed By Other Physicians; Case 12 The Military Physician's Ethical Response to Evidence of Torture; Case 13 Who Should Protect the Public Against Bad Doctors?; Case 14 Disagreements Between Attending and Consultant Physicians; Case 15 Turf Wars: The Ethics of Professional Territorialism; Case 16 Eyewitness to Incompetent Surgery

Case 17 Ethics of Operative Scheduling: Balancing Multiple Fiduciary ResponsibilitiesCase 18 Do Unto Others: Justice in Surgical Education; Case 19 The Surgeon's Obligations to the Noncompliant Patient; Case 20 The Ethics of Serving as a Plaintiff's Expert Medical Witness; Case 21 Standard of Care: What Does It Really Mean?; 4 Innovation and Research; Case 22 When does Conventional Surgical Therapy Become Research?; Case 23 A Surgeon's Obligations When Performing New Procedures; Case 24 The Ethics of Innovative Surgical Approaches for Well-Established Procedures

Case 25 Using Surgical Innovation to Treat Rare DiseasesCase 26 Ethics of Introducing New Operating Room Technology; Case 27 Patenting Surgical Procedures; Case 28 Sham Surgery in Research; Case 29 Stem Cell Research: Obligations When Religious Values Conflict with Professional Values; Case 30 Ethics of Odd Ideas, Good Science, and Academic Freedom; Case 31 The Ethics of By-Lines: Would the Real Authors Please Stand Up?; Case 32 When the Data Won't Get You There: The Ethics of Scientific Error, and Worse; 5 Conflicts of Interest and Conflicts of Commitment

Case 33 Intentional Overtreatment: The Unmentionable Conflict of InterestCase 34 Patient Responsibilities, Family Responsibilities; Case 35 Nonfinancial Conflicts of Interest; Case 36 Ethics of Overscheduling: When Enough Becomes Too Much; Case 37 An Impaired Surgeon and Supervisory Responsibilities; Case 38 Surgeon-Industry Relationships: Ethically Responsible Management of Conflicts of Interest; Case 39 Relationship Funding of Professional Foundations: Just a New Black Sheep?; Case 40 When to Refer to Another Surgeon; Case 41 HIV Infection, Professional Responsibility, and Self-Interest

Case 42 Ethics of Combining Romance with Medical Practice

Notes:

Formerly CIP.

Previously issued in print: 2008.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-770662-2

1-282-54363-6

9786612543630

0-19-971755-9

OCLC:

748211846