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A detailed and comprehensive tutorial reference on the ethical and legal aspects of contemporary neuroscience and clinical neurology

Table of Contents

1. Ethical principles and concepts in medicine
2. Analysis and resolution of ethical problems
3. Hospital bioethics committees and consultants
4. Legal principles and concepts in medicine
5. Legal process, litigation, and judicial decisions
6. Ethics, law and the neurologist
7. Religion and medical ethics
8. Professional conduct and misconduct
9. Medical error and disclosure
10. Professionalism in medicine
11. Palliative care in chronic neurological illness
12. Palliative care in the dying neurological patient
13. Withdrawing & withholding life-sustaining treatment
14. European perspectives on ethics and law in end-of-life care
15. Medical futility
16. Assisted suicide and euthanasia
17. Brain death
18. Coma and disorders of consciousness
19. Neurologically imperiled neonates
20. States of paralysis with intact cognition
21. Dementia
22. Developmental impairment
23. Neurogenetic disorders
24. Technology assessment
25. Medical cost and quality and practice guidelines
26. Public policy and healthcare systems
27. Research involving human subjects
28. Clinical research in the developing world
29. The ethics of invasive neuroscience research
30. The ethics of neuro-enhancement
31. Ethical issues in research neuroethics
32. Legal issues in research neuroethics
33. Social issues in neuroethics
34. Neurophilosophy of consciousness
35. Neurophilosophy of personal identity
36. The definition of death

Reviews

"...along with a handful of other introductory textbooks and handbooks on neuroethics that have been published lately, this is a welcome resource for clinicians and neuroscientists…Rating: 3 Stars" --Doody's.com, Sep 2014