| Description |
x, 501 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part A. Understanding ethics and health law : Chapter 1. What is ethics? -- Chapter 2. Ethical theories and concepts -- Chapter 3. Introduction to health law -- Part B. Principle-based ethics : Chapter 4. Introduction to principle-based ethics -- Chapter 5. Clinical ethics and ethical decision-making -- Part C. Ethics and law in clinical practice: Chapter 6. Professionalism and standards of care -- Chapter 7. Veracity -- Chqapter 8. Confidentiality and record-keeping -- Chapter 9. Consent -- Chapter 10. Assessing competence -- Chapter 11. Decision-making for incompetent people -- Chapter 12. Treatment and non-treatment issues: the limits of medical care -- Chapter 13. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and no-CPR orders -- Part D. Selected topics in biomedical ethics: Chapter 14. Psychiatry -- Chapter 15. Assisted reproductive technology -- Chapter 16. The elderly -- Chapter 17. HIV and AIDS -- Chapter 18. Nursing -- Chapter 19. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health -- Chapter 20. Resource allocation -- Chapter 21. Biomedical research -- Part E. Controversies in biomedical ethics : Chapter 22. Genetics -- Chapter 23. Abortion -- Chapter 24. The persistent vegetative state and brainstem death -- Chapter 25. Organ donation and transplantation -- Chapter 26. Euthanasia -- Table of cases -- Australian legislation |
| Summary |
This book takes the reader from simple definitions and basic concepts in ethics and law, to discussion of the more controversial topics such as euthanasia, genetics and organ donation |
| Notes |
Includes indexes |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographic references and indexes |
| Subject |
Bioethics.
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Jurisprudence -- Australia.
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Medical ethics.
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Medical laws and legislation -- Australia.
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Ethics, Medical.
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Jurisprudence.
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Bioethics.
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Bioethics.
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Ethics, Medical.
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Jurisprudence.
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| SUBJECT |
Australia. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D001315 |
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Australia. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D001315 |
| Author |
Lowe, Michael, 1960-
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McPhee, John, 1954-
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| LC no. |
00343164 |
| ISBN |
187603338X (paperback) |
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