Description: "This book is about the ethical issues that clinicians encounter as they care for patients and is written to assist those who serve on hospital ethics committees as they deliberate about appropriate action in difficult ethical cases"--
Brief description: Albert R. Jonsen, PhD, a founder in the field of clinical ethics, professor emeritus at the University of Washington, and co-founder of the Bioethics Program at Sutter Health, developed the four-topic method to case analysis, providing a real-world approach to ethical dilemmas in clinical medicine.
Mark Siegler, MD, MACP, is professor of Medicine and Surgery at the University of Chicago, and founding director of Chicago's MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics is a renowned expert on clinical medical ethics. William Winslade, PhD, JD, philosopher, attorney and psychoanalyst, is professor of Philosophy in Medicine at the University of Texas Medical Branch, and a nationally recognized bioethicist.