Medical Ethics And the Elderly - Couverture souple

Rai, Gurcharan S.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 185775851X ISBN 13 : 9781857758511

Editeur : Radcliffe Publishing Ltd, 2002

Synopsis

Patient-Centered Care Series Series Editors: Moira Stewart Judith Belle Brown and Thomas R Freeman The application of the patient-centered clinical method has received international recognition. This book introduces and fully examines the patient-centered clinical method and illustrates how it can be applied in primary care. It presents case examples of the many problems encountered in patient-doctor interactions and provides ideas for dealing with these more effectively. It covers a wide range of topics and issues including palliative care abuse dying patients ethical challenges and the role of self-awareness. Many narratives originate from patients' and family members' experiences providing perspectives of great power and value. The Patient-Centered Care series is of great value to all health professionals teachers and students in primary care. For more information on other titles in this series please click here

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

The first edition of Medical Ethics and the Elderly was a landmark publication. This second edition is most welcome. This book is characterised by incisive concise contributions, directed at the central problems of clinical practice. The authors have a range of experience that is impressive and their clinical acumen illuminates their ethical reasoning. This volume will be extremely valuable in increasing reflective practice and increasing the skills of practitioners in tackling difficult ethical issues. In my opinion it should not only be in every hospital library, but it should be a core text of any course in geriatric medicine Dr J R Playfer, Consultant Physician, Royal Liverpool University Hospital No book can make anyone become more ethical, but this volume will help ethical geriatric professionals deal appropriately with situations presenting inconsistent or even conflicting values, as those professionals search for the best, or at least the least worst, alternatives. This volume provides the reader with a valuable initial framework for identifying, dissecting, and addressing major ethical concerns in geriatric practice. Given the significant commonalities in underlying professional and social values, there is much that the UK and US geriatrics communities could teach to and learn from each other. I hope that this fine book will not only assist immensely physicians, medical students, and other health care providers in the UK, but also will facilitate more communication and interaction between the UK and US geriatrics communities regarding the ethical questions and norms that they unavoidably share Marshall B Knapp, Professor of Law and Medicine, Southern Illinois University School, USA

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Radcliffe Publishing Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 185775851X
• ISBN 13: 9781857758511
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 164
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible