Complex Ethics Consultations
Subtitle: Cases that Haunt Us
Contributors: Paul J. Ford (Editor); Denise M. Dudzinski (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: June 30, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780521697156
Subjects: Medical ethics; Medicolegal issues; Medical / Ethics; Ethics; Medical
Description: Clinical ethicists encounter the most emotionally eviscerating medical cases possible. They struggle to facilitate resolutions founded on good reasoning embedded in compassionate care. This book fills the considerable gap between current texts and the continuing educational needs of those actually facing complex ethics consultations in hospital settings. 28 richly detailed cases explore the ethical reasoning, professional issues, and the emotional aspects of these impossibly difficult consultations. The cases are grouped together by theme to aid teaching, discussion and professional growth. The cases inform any reader who has a keen interest in the choices made in real-life medical dilemmas as well as the emotional cost to those who work to improve the situations. On a more advanced level, this book should be read by ethics committee members who participate in ethics consultations, individual ethics consultants, clinicians who seek education about complex clinical ethics cases, and bioethics students.