Scarica ebook Medical Ethics and Law: A Curriculum for the 21st
Century
By Dominic Wilkinson
This short textbook of ethics and law is aimed at doctors in training and in
practice. Medical ethics and law are now firmly embedded in the curricula of
medical schools. The ability to make clinical decisions on the basis of critical
reasoning is a skill that is rightly presumed as necessary in today's doctors.
Medical decisions involve not only scientific understanding but also ethical
values and legal analysis. The belief that it is ethically right to act in one way
rather than another should be based on good reasons: it is not enough to follow
what doctors have always done, nor what experienced doctors now do.The third
edition has been revised and updated to reflect changes in the core curriculum
for students, developments in the law as well as advances in medicine and
technology. It includes a new 'extensions' section, providing an outline of
important developing areas in medical ethics.The first part of the book covers
the foundations of ethics and law in the context of
