Professional Ethics in Obstetrics and Gynecology
Cambridge University Press, 11/14/2019
EAN 9781316631492, ISBN10: 1316631494
Paperback, 272 pages, 24.6 x 19 x 1.3 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English
A comprehensive, accessible approach to the everyday ethical challenges faced in obstetric and gynecological practice. Offering practical guidance for practitioners at all levels, the text also provides a sustained exploration of professional ethics in the intersection of obstetrics and gynecology with psychiatry. Drawing on their award-winning teaching, the authors start each chapter with goals, objectives, topics, and a list of key concepts, which are defined in a separate section. Chapters cover a multitude of topics, from pregnancy and the quest for the 'perfect' baby to end-of-life care - all underpinned by the need for professionally responsible research, advocacy, and health policy. Professional Ethics in Obstetrics and Gynecology is an indispensable resource for both trainee and practicing obstetricians and gynecologists. A chapter devoted solely to pedagogy in professional ethics in obstetrics and gynecology supports the readers' learning and those with or without formal training in ethics to teach students, residents, and colleagues.
Preface
Acknowledgements
Part I. Professional Ethics in Obstetrics and Gynecology
1. Professional ethics in medicine
2. Professional ethics in obstetrics and gynecology
3. Decision making by, with, and for patients
4. Confidentiality
5. Conflicts of interest and conflicts of commitment
Part II. Pedagogy of Professional Ethics in Obstetrics and Gynecology
6. Teaching professional ethics in obstetrics and gynecology
Part III. Professionally Responsible Clinical Practice
7. Prevention of pregnancy
8. Initiation of pregnancy
9. Induced abortion and feticide
10. Fetal analysis
11. Periviability
12. Intrapartum management
13. The perfect baby
14. Cancer and pregnancy
15. Setting ethically justified limits on clinical management
Part IV. Professionally Responsible Leadership
16. Leadership
Part V. Professionally Responsible Innovation and Research
17. Clinical innovation and research
Part VI. Professionally Responsible Health Policy and Advocacy
18. Health policy and advocacy
Key concepts
Index.