Overview
- Offers a reference guide to ethical counselors, clinicians and health care professionals in general
- Includes case studies presenting modern-day ethical dilemmas that can influence medical decision-making
- Proposes a way of empowering patients by increasing their awareness in the decision-making process
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology (BRIEFSAPPLSCIENCES)
Part of the book sub series: SpringerBriefs on Ethical and Legal Issues in Biomedicine and Technology (ELIBT)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Ethical Issues
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Reproductive Choices and Genetic Diseases
- Oncofertility and Cancer Treatment During Pregnancy
- Understanding Probability
- Incidental Findings
- Informed Decisions and Consent
- Emotions and Decisions
- Patient Communication
- Patient Empowerment
- Overdiagnosis and Overtreatment
- Participatory Oncology
- Participatory Medicine
- Moral Decisions
About this book
This book offers an overview of the main questions arising when biomedical decision-making intersects ethical decision-making. It reports on two ethical decision-making methodologies, one addressing the patients, the other physicians. It shows how patients’ autonomous choices can be empowered by increasing awareness of ethical deliberation, and at the same time it supports healthcare professionals in developing an ethical sensitivity, which they can apply in their daily practice.
The book highlights the importance and relevance of practicing bioethics in the age of personalized medicine. It presents concrete cases studies dealing with cancer and genetic diseases, where difficult decisions need to be made by all the parties involved: patients, physicians and families. Decisions concern not only diagnostic procedures and treatments, but also moral values, religious beliefs and ways of seeing life and death, thus adding further layers of complexity to biomedical decision-making. This book, which is strongly rooted in the philosophical tradition, features non-directive counseling and patient-centeredness. It provides a concise yet comprehensive and practice-oriented guide to decision-making in modern healthcare.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Ethical Counselling and Medical Decision-Making in the Era of Personalised Medicine
Book Subtitle: A Practice-Oriented Guide
Editors: Giovanni Boniolo, Virginia Sanchini
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27690-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-27688-5Published: 02 March 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-27690-8Published: 20 February 2016
Series ISSN: 2191-530X
Series E-ISSN: 2191-5318
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 117
Number of Illustrations: 4 illustrations in colour
Topics: Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering, Theory of Medicine/Bioethics, Ethics, Biomedicine general