Medical Professionals: Conflicts and Quandaries in Medical Practice

ISBN-13: 9780367733575 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 170 str.

Kathleen Montgomery; Wendy Lipworth

Opis

Medical Professionals characterizes the kinds of conflicts and quandaries confronting medical professionals and places these within relevant theoretical frameworks, and presents data from four qualitative interview studies with clinicians, patients, educators, administrators, and industry practitioners.

Spis treści

Part I Overview

Chapter 1

Role-Related Conflicts and Value-Laden Quandaries Confronting Today's Medical Professionals

Kathleen Montgomery and Wendy Lipworth

　

Part II Empirical Explorations of Conflicts and Quandaries

Chapter 2

Respecting Patient Autonomy: Some Telling Challenges for Medical Professionals Who Treat Seriously Ill Patients

Christopher Jordens and Kathleen Montgomery

　

Chapter 3

Off-label Prescribing: The Borderlands Between Clinical Practice and Experimentation

Narcyz Ghinea, Ian Kerridge, and Wendy Lipworth

　

Chapter 4

Clinical Quandaries Associated with Accelerated Access to Cancer Medicines

Jessica Pace, Narcyz Ghinea, Miriam Wiersma, Bronwen Morrell, Ian Kerridge, and Wendy Lipworth

　

Chapter 5

Managing and Regulating Conflicts of Interest in Medicine

Wendy Lipworth and Kathleen Montgomery

　

Chapter 6

Medical Professionals as Expert Advisors in Macro-allocation: Problems of Dual Agency and Conflict of Interest

Siun Gallagher

　

Part III Reconceptualization and Concluding Observations

Chapter 7

After Dominance: The Elastic Politics of Medicine

Christopher Jordens

　

Chapter 8

Value Pluralism — The Bare Bones

Miles Little

　

Chapter 9

Making Sense of Professional Conflicts and Quandaries

Wendy Lipworth and Kathleen Montgomery

O autorze

Kathleen Montgomery is Professor of the Graduate Division and Emerita Professor of Organizations and Management at the University of California, Riverside.

Wendy Lipworth is a bioethicist and health social scientist and Associate Professor at The University of Sydney, Faculty of Medicine and Health, Sydney Health Ethics.