Author: CHRISTIE, Ronald J. & HOFFMASTER, Barry C.
Title: Ethical Issues in Family Medicine.
Description: Oxford University Press, 1986. Hardcover. Begins with focus on less controversial but more pervasive, everyday ethical problems faced by family physicians with respect to patient welfare and autonomy. A broader extent of bioethical issues and their context is considered and extreme ethical positions are rejected as well as the theoretical frameworks that generate them. The authors have a purpose to deepen the understanding by of the defining characteristics of family medicine, physician-patient relationships and the family as a patient. Focus is not limited to traditional controversial biomedical issues favoured by ethicists -including euthanasia, abortion and genetic engineering. Rather, the position taken is that applied ethics has to be grounded in the underlying philosophy of the discipline. More sensitivity to the diversity of ethical problems is counselled and consideration of the wider range of values that these problems encompass. Later chapters concentrate more on practical cases to illustrate, clarify and test these ethics of family medicine. Contents: 1. The Definition of Family Medicine2. The Physician-Patient Relationship 3. Patient Welfare 4. Patient Autonomy 5. The Family as Patient 6. Toward and Ethic of Family Medicine 7. Control of Information 8. Intervening in Patients' Lifestyles 9. Conflicts of Values 10. Difficult Patients and Physicians 11. Referral, Advocacy, and the Role of a Family Physician in a Hospital 12. Counseling 13. Conclusion. Slight wear and sunning to dj, touch of foxing to bottom edges, otherwise very good condition. 194pp. ISBN 0195036379.

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