Surgical Ethics

Laurence B. McCullough, Ph.D., is Professor of Medicine, Community Medicine and Medical Ethics at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX. He is also the author, with Frank A. Chervenak, of Ethics in Obstetrics and Gynecology (OUP, 1994). James W. Jones, M.D., Ph.D., is Professor of Surgery, Cell Biology and Medical Ethics at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX. He is also Chief of Surgical Service at the Houston Veterans Affairs Medical Center. Baruch A. Brody, Ph.D., is the Leon Jaworski Professor of Biomedical Ethics and Director of the Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy at Baylor College of Medicine. He is also Professor of Philosophy at Rice University. His previous books include Life and Death Decision Making (OUP, 1988) and Ethical Issues in Drug Testing, Approval, and Pricing (OUP, 1995).

Paul A. Ebert (American College of Surgeons, Chicago): Foreword
Preface
Laurence B. McCullough, James W. Jones, and Baruch A. Brody (all at Baylor College of Medicine): 1. Principles and Practice of Surgical Ethics
Laurence B. McCullough, James W. Jones, and Baruch A. Brody: 2. Informed Consent: Autonomous Decision Making of the Surgical Patient
Mary Faith Marshall and C.D. Smith, III (both at Medical University of South Carolina): 3. Confidentiality in Surgical Practice
Stuart J. Younger and Jerry M. Shuck (both at Case Western Reserve): 4. Advance Directives and the Determination of Death
Kenneth L. Mattox and H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr. (both at Baylor College of Medicine): 5. Emergency Patients: Serious Moral Choices, with Limited Time, Information, and Patient Participation
Robert M. Arnold (University of Pittsburgh), Byers W. Shaw (University of Nebraska), and Ruth Purtilo (Creighton University): 6. The Acute, High-Risk Patient: The Case of Transplantation
Jeremy Sugarman and Robert Harland (both at Duke University): 7. Acute Yet Non-Emergent Patients
Andrew Lustig and Peter Scardino (both at Baylor College of Medicine): 8. Elective Patients
Amir Halevy and John C. Baldwin (both at Baylor College of Medicine): 9. The Poor Surgical Risk Patient
Stephen Wear, Robert Milch (both at SUNY, Buffalo), and W. Lynn Weaver (Morehouse School of Medicine): 10. Care of the Dying Patient
Jonathan D. Moreno (University of Virginia) and Frank E. Lucente (SUNY Health Sciences Center, Brooklyn): 11. Patients Who are Family Members, Friends, Colleagues, Family Members of Colleagues
Joel E. Frader (Northwestern University) and Donna A. Caniano (Ohio State University): 12. Research and Innovation in Surgery
Loretta M. Kopelman, Donald R. Lannin, and Arthur E. Kopelman (all at East Carolina University): 13. Preventing and Managing Unwarranted Biases against Patients
R. Scott Jones (both at University of Virginia) and John C. Fletcher: 14. Self-Regulation of Surgical Practice and Research
Nancy S. Jecker and Margaret D. Allen (both at University of Washington): 15. Surgery and Other Medical Specialties
Ruth Purtilo (Creighton University), W. Byers Shaw (University of Nebraska) Robert Arnold (University of Pittsburgh): 16. Obligations of Surgeons to Non-Physician Team Members and Trainees
Kenneth V. Iserson and Bruce E. Jarrell (both at University of Arizona): 17. Financial Relationships with Patients
George Khushf and Robert Gifford (both at University of South Carolina): 18. Understanding, Assessing, and Managing Conflicts of Interest
Kevin Wm. Wildes and Robert B. Wallace (both at Georgetown University): 19. Relationships with Payers and Institutions that Manage and Deliver Patient Services