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Practical Ethics for General Practice (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
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Practical Ethics for General Practice (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
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General practice provides the first point of contact to medical
care for patients across the world. GPs have obligations to
patients in their care, to the government for responsible use of
resources, and to communities for the standard of health services
provided. Ethics is at the heart of health services, dealing with
fundamental questions about what ought to be valued, and why. The
two disciplines inevitably impact upon each other, and this book
brings them together to focus on practical ethics for general
practitioners.
In this update of a successful first edition, the authors aim to:
help GPs appreciate the ethically significant nature of general
practice, drawing attention to the ethical complexity of apparently
mundane and everyday experience; present a thoughtful and
thought-provoking account of the moral foundations of general
practice, exploring how moral concepts such as trust, beneficence,
respect for autonomy, and fairness take on unique meanings in the
general practice setting; and to discuss some specific ethical
issues in detail, offering solutions that are practical as well as
ethically sound.
The focus is on practice throughout, ensuring through real cases
and discussions with practitioners that the book is not abstract
and esoteric in its discussion of philosophical principles, but
that it is applicable in the real world of the doctor's surgery.
The authors guide their readers through basic approaches to ethical
reasoning and use of a practical ethics analysis framework suitable
for use in all ethical dilemmas in medicine. Themes covered include
the authors' research-based account of trust and the doctor-patient
relationship, acting in the patient's best interests,
confidentiality, making decisions with patients, beginning and end
of life issues, treating children and adolescents, and role
conflicts in general practice.
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