Medical Ethics and Law: A Curriculum for the 21st Century

by Dominic Wilkinson, Jonathan Herring, Julian Savulescu BMedSci MBBS MA PhD, et al.

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0702075965
• ISBN13: 9780702075964
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Length: 374 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"