Ethics and law for the health professions / Ian Kerridge, Michael Lowe and Cameron Stewart.

Annandale, N.S.W. : Federation Press, 2009.

3rd ed.

66301

Medical ethics -- Australia.

Medical -- Laws and legislation -- Australia.

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. What is ethics?

Ethical theories and concepts

Relativism and pluralism

Introduction to law

Introduction to principle-based ethics

Clinical ethics and ethical decision-making

Professionalism

Standards of care, error and negligence

The student in the health-care environment

Nursing

Truth-telling (veracity)

Confidentiality and record-keeping

Impairments of decision-making capacity

Consent

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

CPR and no-CPR orders

Genetics and biotechnology

Sexuality and reproduction

Abortion

Children

People with mental illness

Ethics and chronic disease

The elderly

Post-coma unresponsiveness and brain death

Organ donation and transplantation

End-of-life care: palliative care, euthanasia and assisted suicide

Public health

Infectious diseases

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health

Resource allocation and international health

Biomedical research

Health care, animals and the environment

Complementary and alternative medicine

The pharmaceutical industry.

Includes index.

Detailed table of contents available via online link.

Table of contents and index are taken from the published work with the permission of the publisher.

9781862877306

xxv, 895 p. ; 24 cm