Ethical and legal issues in modern surgery / edited by Nadey Hakim, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, UK, Vassilios Papalois, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, UK, Miran Epstein, Queen Mary University of London, UK. - London : Imperial College Press, 2015. - xvi, 428 p. : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm. - Introductory series in medicine ; v. 2. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Ethical issues in surgery: the patient's perspective / Amanda Venters -- Consent for clinical interventions and medical research / Miran Epstein -- Ethical issues in medical confidentiality and privacy / Philip Hébert -- Resource allocation in healthcare / Ariel Zosmer -- Ethical and legal issues in clinical research / Andrew J. T. George -- Medical negligence and malpractice / Bernard M. Dickens -- Surgical training / S.R. Patel, P. Chadha and N. Hakim -- Great expectations: towards a greater understanding of ethics in policing by exploring practices in the medical profession / Allyson MacVean -- Ethical and legal issues in anaesthetics / Jeremy Campbell and Felicity Plaat -- Neurosurgery: ethical and legal issues / Howard Morgan, Louis Whitworth, Christopher Madden and Duke Samson -- Ethical and legal issues in modern cardiothoracic surgery / Kamran Baig and Jon Anderson -- Obstetrics and gynaecological surgery: the ethics and law of abortion and sterilisation / Ariel Zosmer -- Ethical issues in plastic and reconstructive surgery / Ivo Pitanguy, Henrique Radwanski and Aris Sterodimas -- Ethical issues in transplantation / Miran Epstein -- Ethical and legal issues in composite tissue allograft (face, arm, and uterus) and microsurgery / Richard Huxtable and Alice Guilder -- Ethical and legal issues in trauma medicine / Rebecca C. H. Brown.

9781848162464 (hardcover : alk. paper)

2014044355


Ethics, Medical.
General Surgery--ethics.
General Surgery--legislation & jurisprudence.


Print books.

RD27.7 / .E84 2015