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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherDuke University Press
ISBN-100822305402
ISBN-139780822305408
eBay Product ID (ePID)519180
Product Key Features
Number of Pages126 Pages
Publication NameProfessional Ethics and Primary Care Medicine : Beyond Dilemmas and Decorum
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1985
SubjectEthics
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaMedical
AuthorLarry R. Churchill, Harmon L. Smith
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight8 Oz
Item Length9.8 in
Item Width5.9 in
Additional Product Features
LCCN85-016098
Dewey Edition19
Dewey Decimal174/.2
Table Of ContentAcknowledgments vii Introduction 1 1. Primary Care: A Moral Notion 7 2. Ethics and Professionalism 21 3. Moral Imagination and Medicine 45 4. Case Studies in Primary Care 69 5. Primary Care and Social Justice 85 Notes 109 Index 115
SynopsisThis volume moves beyond ethics as problem-solving or ethics as etiquette to offer a look at ethics in primary care--as opposed to life-or-death--medical care. Professional Ethics and Primary Care Medicine deals with the ethics of routine, day-to-day encounters between doctors and patients. It probes beneath the hard decisions to look at the moral frameworks, habits of thought, and customs of practice that underlie choices. Harmon Smith and Larry Churchill argue that primary care, far from being merely a setting for the rendering of care, provides a new understanding of both physician and patient, and thereby offers a fresh basis for medical ethics.