Introduction to Clinical Ethics: Perspectives from a Physician Bioethicist

This textbook offers an introduction to the field of bioethics, specifically from a practicing physician standpoint. It engages a wide range of recent scholarship and emerging research covering many crucial topics in clinical ethics. While there has been increasing attention to the role of bioethics in medicine, the gap between theory and practice still exists, and it continues to impede the dialogue between health care professionals from one side and bioethicists and philosophers of medicine from the other side. This book builds bridges and open channels of connection between different parties in these conversations. It does so from a physician's practical perspective, engaging recent scholarship and emerging research, to shed light on pivotal ethical dilemmas in contemporary clinical practice.

Engages recent scholarship around pivotal ethical challenges in clinical practice Combines an experienced perspective of a physician bioethicist with an academic standpoint Explores the emerging ethical dilemmas in cardiovascular medicine

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Dr. Toro is a cardiology fellow at the Houston Methodist Hospital, Texas, USA. In 2011 he earned his Medical Diploma from The University of Kalamoon in Syria. Following that, he worked as a General Practitioner in Aleppo for two years. In 2013 he moved to the United States and worked as a research fellow at the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine at Tufts Medical Center in Boston. In 2015 he started his professional training in Internal Medicine at Cleveland Clinic in Ohio and became board-certified in Internal Medicine in 2018. Following residency training, Dr. Toro practiced hospital medicine for two years. Then he was appointed as a clinical associate staff in the medical intensive care unit at Cleveland Clinic, Ohio. Dr. Toro is also active in Cardiovascular Research and has publications in Cardiovascular Imaging and Electrophysiology.

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Introduction to Clinical Ethics: Perspectives from a Physician Bioethicist Introduction.- Section I: Context of Bioethics in Clinical Practice. Ch1: PhysicianPatient Relationship and the Challenges of Modern Practice.- Ch2: Models of Medical Clinical Practice: A Comparative Discussion of Secular & Religious Bioethics.- Section II: Research and Biotechnology.- Ch3: Ethics of Clinical Research, Publications, and Conflict of Interest.- Ch4: The Debate on Biotechnology and Genetic Therapy.- Section III: Cardiovascular Medicine.- Ch5: Clinical InterventionsAnthropological Approach to Advance Heart Failure and Ethical Challenges in Infective Endocarditis.- Ch6: Deactivating Cardiovascular Implantable Electronic Device at the End of Life, an Ethical Dilemma in Cardiovascular Medicine.- Section IV: End of Life Issues.- Ch7: Ethical Dilemmas at The End of Life. Addressing Goals of Care.- Ch8: Ethical Dilemmas at The End of Life. Palliative Sedation & Brain Death.