K. W. M. (Bill) Fulford is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy and Mental Health in the University of Warwick Medical School, Fellow of St Cross College and Member of the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford. Between 2005 and 2011 he was Special Advisor for Values-based Practice to the Department of Health. Edward Peile is Emeritus Professor of Medical Education in the University of Warwick Medical School. A Fellow of three medical Royal Colleges, he was awarded the President's Medal of the Academy of Medical Educators in 2009 for his lifetime contribution to medical education. Heidi Carroll is a General Practitioner in Aberdeenshire, UK.

• Preface; Foreword; A bold claim to start this book; Prologue: linking science with people; Part I. Values, Individuals and an Overview of Values-based Practice: Introduction to Part I; 1. 'It's my back, Doctor!' (Episode 1): values in clinical decision making; 2. 'It's my back, Doctor!' (Episode 2): applying the tools already in the clinical toolbox for working with values to individuals; 3. An outline of values-based practice: its point, premise and ten-part process; Part II. The Clinical Skills for Values-based Practice: Introduction to Part II; 4. Recovery in schizophrenia: a values wake-up call; 5. Teenage acne: widening our values horizons; 6. A smoking enigma: getting (and not getting) the knowledge; 7. Diabetic control and controllers: nothing without communication; Part III. Relationships in Values-based Practice: Introduction to Part III; 8. 'Best' in breast cancer: clinician values and person-centred care; 9. Risks in safeguarding children: team values as well as skills; Part IV. Science and Values-based Practice: Introduction to Part IV; 10. The reluctant hypertensive: think evidence, think values too!; 11. Unexplainable abdominal pain: think values, think evidence too!; 12. Elective fertility: think high-tech, think evidence and values!; Part V. Bringing It All Together: Introduction to Part V; 13. A good (enough) death: dissensus in end of life care; 14. 'It's my back, Doctor!' (Episode 3): building a shared framework for values-based practice; Postscript: the small change of care; A bold claim to end this book; Appendix A. Values-based practice summary and definition of key terms; Appendix B. Values-based practice teaching framework; Index.

'… truly brilliant … The coherence with which the authors unpick complex and usually intangible, as well as explicit, situations is extraordinary … I was fascinated by the different scenarios, which echoed some of my own experiences with patients and made the text come alive and easy to read … This book is a hugely welcome clarion call back to the essential values in medicine … a very impressive book …' Julia Samuel, Founder Patron and Trustee, The Child Bereavement Charity, from the Foreword