BookLionel Bercovitch, Clifford S. Perlis, Benjamin K. Stoff, Jane M. Grant-Kels, editors.
Summary: This extensively updated textbook reviews the ethical issues faced within dermatology. Bringing together practical real-life case scenarios and scholarly analysis, it covers the foundations of bioethics, as well as ethical issues associated with the various roles dermatologists play, including clinician, professional, educator, business person, and scholar. New chapters on the ethics of dermatologic care during pandemics, non-traditional interventions, private equity in dermatology, self-care and improvement, skin cancer screening, maintenance of certification, the ethics of clinical trial design are also included. Dermatoethics: Contemporary Ethics and Professionalism in Dermatology, 2nd Edition creates a dialogue around issues of ethics and professionalism within dermatology and is an essential text for both trainee and practicing dermatologists wishing to immerse themselves in the key questions in the discipline.
Contents:
Foundations of Dermatoethics
Dermatology at the beginning and end of life
Beyond the office visit: ethical obligations outside of the traditional dermatologist patient encounter
Nontraditional interventions and drug dispensing
Communication and the dermatologist-patient relationship
Professional boundaries
Dealing with difference
Self-care and self -improvement
Public health and advocacy
Corporatization, consolidation, and conflict of interest in dermatology
Honesty in advertising in dermatology
Is there a moral obligation for dermatologists to accept health insurance?
Distributive justice and drug dispensing and pricing
Responsibilities of the trainee to the patient; disclosure, supervision, first-time procedures
Faculty-resident-student and mentor-mentee relationships; healthy and unhealthy dynamics
Ethics of residency and fellowship matches
Ethical responsibilities of program directors
Ethical responsibilities of department chairs
Role of medical students in clinic
Publication ethics
Ethics of clinical trial design
Respect for human subjects: Ethical obligations of investigators
Clinical practice guidelines and conflicts of interest
Role of industry in research funding; non-disclosure agreements
Ethics for research consortiums
Ethics of cutting edge trials for desperate patients.