Title General practice and ethics : uncertainty and responsibility / edited by Christopher Dowrick and Lucy Frith

Published London ; New York : Routledge, 1999

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Description x, 196 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm Series Professional ethics Professional ethics. Contents Pt. I. Themes. 1. Uncertainty and responsibility / Christopher Dowrick. 2. Evidence-based medicine and general practice / Lucy Frith. 3. Ethico-legal dilemmas within general practice: moral indeterminacy and abstract morality / Len Doyal. 4. The general practitioner and confidentiality / Jean McHale. 5. Patient-centredness: a history / Carl May and Nicola Mead. 6. Ethics and postmodernity / Sam Smith -- Pt. II. Topics. 7. The ethics of prescribing / Colin Bradley. 8. Depression in general practice / Roger Higgs. 9. Advance directives / Angus Dawson. 10. The ethics of research in general practice / Roger Jones Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Evidence-based medicine -- Moral and ethical aspects. Medical ethics. Physicians (General practice) -- Professional ethics. Primary care (Medicine) -- Moral and ethical aspects. Author Dowrick, Christopher, 1951- Frith, Lucy. LC no. 98038318 ISBN 0415164982 (hbk) 0415164990 (paperback)

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