Oxford handbook of medical ethics and law / Anna Smajdor, Jonathan Herring, and Robert Wheeler.

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Smajdor, Anna [author.]

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Series: Oxford medical handbooks | Oxford medicine onlinePublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2021Description: 1 online resource (384 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9780191743009 (ebook) :

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Handbook of medical ethics and law
Medical ethics and law

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Additional physical formats: Print version :: No titleDDC classification:

174.2 23

LOC classification:

R724

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Summary: This handbook provides a practical and accessible guide to the legal and ethical issues which a medical professional might face. It explains the major ethical theories - consequentialism, deontology, virtue ethics and principlism - and presents a method for moral decision-making, based on the application of theory and critical reasoning. The text sets out the key legal principles governing medical practice including the obtaining of consent; the law of negligence; the principles of confidentiality; the law on organ donation; and the legal regulation of end of life. The book goes on to present a number of'real life' situations in which the ethical and legal principles are applied in a concrete and clear way. The book also contains extracts from the key legislation governing the practice of medicine.

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Also issued in print: 2022.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This handbook provides a practical and accessible guide to the legal and ethical issues which a medical professional might face. It explains the major ethical theories - consequentialism, deontology, virtue ethics and principlism - and presents a method for moral decision-making, based on the application of theory and critical reasoning. The text sets out the key legal principles governing medical practice including the obtaining of consent; the law of negligence; the principles of confidentiality; the law on organ donation; and the legal regulation of end of life. The book goes on to present a number of'real life' situations in which the ethical and legal principles are applied in a concrete and clear way. The book also contains extracts from the key legislation governing the practice of medicine.

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