Complex Ethics Consultations: Cases that Haunt Us
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| Rating | : | 4.33 (586 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0521697158 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 274 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-08-20 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
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.. 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. 28 richly detailed cases explore the ethical reasoning, professional issues, and the emotional aspects of these impossibly difficult consultations. Clinical ethicists encounter the most emotionally eviscerating medical cases possible.
"Good Collection of Hard Ethics Consultations" according to JessB. I should start with a caveat; I'm not an ethicist, but I am a nurse (I work in an ICU in a medium sized metropolitan hospital) and see a lot of these issues in my day to day work. The cases in this book are what one would consider basic, run-of-the-mill ethics consults, but rather more complicated "haunting" cases. The authors are very sensitive and careful in describing the cases, and thoughtful in looking back to reflect on what made the case so difficult, and what was done well, and what didn't go so well and what they would do differently next time. The essence of some of these cases were very familiar to m
She is Chief of the Ethics Consultation Service and provides organizational ethics consultation at University of Washington Medical Center, USA. . Paul J. Dudzinski is Assistant Professor in the Department of Medical History and Ethics at the University of Washington School of Medicine. Ford is Associat
These features, along with the quality of the case presentations and the personal nature of the reflections, make the book a useful tool for training members of hospital ethics committees. For most complex conundrums of clinical ethics, there is no right answer. The cases are presented concisely and give enough information for readers to make judgments about what ought to have been done. They illustrate all the ways in which ethics consultation is imperfect, tentative, and open to ongoing questioning and discussion. The editors even include a useful guide in which cases are organized by theme and suggestions for further