Clinical Ethics: A Practical Approach to Ethical Decisions in Clinical Medicine

by Albert K. Jonsen, Mark Siegler, William Winslade

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Trust the proven "Four Box" method to formulate ethically appropriate recommendations for patient care

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Clinical Ethics teaches healthcare providers how to effectively identify, evaluate, and resolve ethical issues in clinical medicine. Using the author acclaimed "Four Box Method" and numerous illustrative case examples, this book enables practitioners to gain a better understanding of the complexities involved in ethical cases and demonstrates how to reach resolution to ethical problems.

Clinical Ethics goes beyond theory to offer a decision-making strategy applicable to real-world practice. Readers will learn an easy-to-apply system based on simple questions about medical indications, patient preferences, quality of life, and contextual features that clearly explain clinical ethics and help them formulate a sound diagnosis and treatment strategy. The case examples have been selected to demonstrate how principles apply to real-world everyday practice.

The co-authors, a bioethicist, a physician and a lawyer/ psychoanalyst /philosopher, draw on more than forty years respectively of clinical experience to select exemplary cases of ethical problems and to reflect on how moral principles and concepts can guide clinicians in formulating ethically appropriate recommendations for patient care.

A unique chapter organization:
Each chapter of the book begins with some general considerations about the topic, and the ethical principle relevant to that topic. The clinical situations that generate ethical problems are then described and illustrated by clinically realistic medical cases. A short distillation of current opinion from the bioethical literature is provided, followed by an analysis of the cases.. The authors conclude with recommendations that the three authors have formulated from their extensive experience as bioethics consultants.

256 pages, Paperback

Published June 30, 2015

Reviews

[Britt B]

Required reading for class - not exactly a 'fun' read. It was interesting to read about the suggestions in different ethical cases, some of them surprised me.

I do wish the authors put the comments/recommendations directly under each case they touch on. A few times there are multiple cases listed back-to-back and then the discussion for each individual case is sort of thrown together in one big statement. This would make sense if they had similar conclusions but they didn't.

[Deirdre · Rating 2 out of 5]

Odd that a book on ethics, written in 2015, would continue to make reference to ‘Anglo-American’ law. What the hell does that mean??? The first use of it is in a quote from 1960 - not okay, but more understandable. The subsequent mentions are just casually thrown in by the authors.

So a book dealing with ethics (basically, moral principles) finds it appropriate to continually draw attention to ‘Anglo’ as if this is in contrast to some separate kind of law in the U.S. - a country founded on and still struggling with its past/present oppression and crimes attached to both race and ethnicity. But I guess I shouldn’t be shocked that I’m forced to read yet another book for my formal education that contains these types of micro-aggressions. After all, this is a country that believes critical race theory should be silenced. The publisher, editor (or better yet, the authors!) should do better.

Glad to no longer be reading this.

[Mike · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book should be required reading for everyone in the healthcare field.

[Adam Omelianchuk · Rating 4 out of 5]

Stronger than a sedative.

[Sarah Griffith · Rating 5 out of 5]

While this is a textbook, it was engaging and easy to follow on such a difficult subject.

[Ty Langford · Rating 3 out of 5]

Did the job, learned about the intricacies of clinical ethics in medicine.