The Professional Responsibility Model of Perinatal Ethics

by Laurence B. McCullough and Frank A. Chervenak

This book provides the first clinically comprehensive and practical approach to ethical challenges in perinatal medicine. The first chapter introduces and explains the professional responsibility model of perinatal ethics. The professional responsibility model is based on the medical ethics of two major physician-ethics in the history of Western medical ethics, Dr. John Gregory (1724-1773) of Scotland and Dr. Thomas Percival (1740-1804) of England...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3110316609
• ISBN13: 9783110316605
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: de Gruyter
• Length: 147 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.8" x 9.5"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary