Medical Ethics in Clinical Practice

Matjaž Zwitter is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Ethics and Law at the University of Maribor, Slovenia, a Professor of Oncology and Radiotherapy at the Faculty of Medicine in Ljubljana, Slovenia, and a Senior Consultant Physician at the Institute of Oncology in Ljubljana, Slovenia. He has authored more than 45 papers included in the PubMed database and has co-edited two books: Communication with the cancer patient: information and truth (The New York Academy of Sciences, 1997) and New challenges in communication with the cancer patient (Springer, 2013).In addition to his formal achievements and positions, his main qualification is 40 years of personal experience devoted to treating patients with cancer.

• Preface.- Ethics and law.- Ethical codes and declarations.- Ethical theories.- Ethical analysis.- Autonomy and its limitations.- Communication.- Relations in health care teams.- Professional malpractice.- Limited resources, priorities, and corruption.- Image of a physician.- Preventive medicine.- Ethics at the beginning of life.- Paediatrics.- Genetics.- Emergency medicine and transplantation.- Elderly and psychiatric patients.- Dying and death.- Research.- Unproven methods of diagnostics and treatment.- Physicians beyond patient care.- Students’ seminars.