Dermatoethics Contemporary Ethics and Professionalism in Dermatology

This extensively updated textbook reviews the ethical issues faced within dermatology. Bringing together practical real-life case scenarios and scholarly analysis, it covers the foundations of bioethics, as well as ethical issues associated with the various roles dermatologists play, including clini...

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Other Authors: Bercovitch, Lionel (Editor), Perlis, Clifford S. (Editor), Stoff, Benjamin K. (Editor), Grant-Kels, Jane M. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 2021, 2021
Edition:2nd ed. 2021
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Foundations of Dermatoethics
  • Dermatology at the beginning and end of life
  • Beyond the office visit: ethical obligations outside of the traditional dermatologist patient encounter
  • Nontraditional interventions and drug dispensing
  • Communication and the dermatologist-patient relationship
  • Professional boundaries
  • Dealing with difference
  • Self-care and self –improvement
  • Public health and advocacy
  • Corporatization, consolidation, and conflict of interest in dermatology
  • Honesty in advertising in dermatology
  • Is there a moral obligation for dermatologists to accept health insurance?
  • Distributive justice and drug dispensing and pricing
  • Responsibilities of the trainee to the patient; disclosure, supervision, first-time procedures
  • Faculty-resident-student and mentor-mentee relationships; healthy and unhealthy dynamics
  • Ethics of residency and fellowship matches
  • Ethical responsibilities of program directors
  • Ethical responsibilities of department chairs
  • Role of medical students in clinic
  • Publication ethics
  • Ethics of clinical trial design
  • Respect for human subjects: Ethical obligations of investigators
  • Clinical practice guidelines and conflicts of interest
  • Role of industry in research funding; non-disclosure agreements
  • Ethics for research consortiums
  • Ethics of cutting edge trials for desperate patients