The updated edition concerns doctors, medical students, healthcare professionals, clinics, public and private hospitals, health insurances, laboratories, pharmacies, and, especially, patients victimized by medical error.
Besides the main theme, the book contains important issues such as: plastic surgery, corrective and esthetic surgeries, treatment interruption, Living will of Advance Directives and model, therapeutic excess and orthothanasia; waiver of treatment and Jehovah’s Witnesses; limits to patient’s autonomy, donation and transplantation of organs and tissues; Living Will with model that includes instructions for after death, destination of the body and organs, cremation etc.
New notes, court decisions and more contemporary doctrinal comments were added, besides judgments of the Superior Court of Medical Ethics and resolutions and opinions of the Federal Council of Medicine related to unfair competition between doctors, advertising of titles and specialties; anencephaly diagnosis and childbirth anticipation; gender reassignment surgery; anti-aging treatment.
Contains the full text of the Code of Medical Ethics.
Author: Décio Policastro
Publisher: Del Rey Ltda.
Format: 16×23, 392 pp.
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