An Introduction to Applied Clinical Ethics in Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

An Introduction to Applied Clinical Ethics in Pathology and Laboratory Medicine: A Case-Based Approach offers an organized pragmatic approach to processing ethical dilemmas that frequently occur in pathology and laboratory medicine in a systematic way. This is a novel resource strategically crafted in a case-based format to help readers confidently reach potential solutions with strong ethical reasoning that not only further quality patient care but honor the good intentions of pathologists and laboratorians. Readers will gain confidence in their ability to think critically about complex problems in pathology that create ethical conflict. This book is for healthcare providers, practicing anatomic and clinical pathologists, pathology residents and fellows, pathology educators and graduate medical education program directors, students of allied health sciences, researchers, laboratory technologists, and any members of the clinical care team who utilize laboratory services.

• Allows readers to identify many of the most common ethical dilemmas in pathology and laboratory medicine; each chapter covers a different type of dilemma
• Provides readers a diversity of ways the same type of ethical challenge may manifest enabling reader to better identify these challenges when they present in varied (often more complex) forms; each chapter will include multiple different cases illustrating similar challenges in differing presentations
• Includes a rich case discussion section in each chapter that will include current regulatory and legal statutes (where relevant) that offer guidance in getting to potential ethical resolutions to the challenges depicted