Introduction: A Primer on Surgical Ethics -- Informed Consent and Disclosure -- Professional Self-Regulation -- Innovation and Research -- Conflicts of Interest and Conflicts of Commitment -- The Ethics of Surgery as a Business -- Challenges to Medical Professionalism: Assaults from Within and Without -- End-of-Life Issues
Summary
Surgical ethics is the application of ethics to issues specific to surgery. This volume provides a collection of clinical case studies representing a wide range of the ethical issues surgeons confront today. It is an excellent text for teaching surgical ethics to surgical residents and medical students and a fascinating read for practicing surgeons. It is intended to engage the reader into participating in evidence-based ethical conflicts. The authors escort us through 71 brief, realistic, and ethically complex problems, offering a series of five possible resolutions to each and guiding us thr
