Ethics and law for the health professions / Ian Kerridge, Michael Lowe, John McPhee.

Sydney : Federation Press, 2005.

2nd ed.

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Medical ethics -- Australia.

Medical laws and legislation -- Australia.

1. What is ethics?

2. Ethical theories and concepts

3. Relativism and pluralism

4. Introduction to principle-based ethics

5. Introduction to law

6. Clinical ethics and the ethical decision-making

7. The student in the health-care environment

8. Professionalism and standards of care

9. Professional competence and the issue of negligence

10. Veracity

11. Assessing competence

12. Decision-making for non-competent adults and children

13. Consent

14. Confidentiality and record keeping

15. Treatment and non-treatment issues: the limits of medical care

16. CPR and no-CPR orders

17. Nursing

18. The elderly

19. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health

20. People with mental illness

21. Euthanasia

22. Post-coma unresponsiveness (vegetative state) and brainstem death

23. Organ donation and transplantation

24. Genetics

25. Abortion

26. Assisted reproductive technology

27. Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM)

28. Biomedical research

29. Resource allocation and health policy

30. Public health, HIV/AIDS and infectious disease

31. The pharmaceutical industry.

Includes index.

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